Redhat servers rooted

[Matthew Carpenter]

Alan Jackson wrote:

>Surprisingly, they weren't. But I don't think they had tested the 
>passwords against crack.
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Having some experience with John, I will tell you this:
  Unix/Linux passwords are magnitudes more difficult to crack than 
Windows passwords.  Cracking trivial passwords on Unix/Linux with the 
salt can take days, while trivial passwords on Windows with no salt can 
crack as simply as a couple seconds for a dictionary attack.  The 
difference gets even more immense as non-trivial passwords are used.