file://localhost/usr/ports/security/crack/README.html

[crs at swcp.com]

Hello,

Something strange is going on.

I've used crack in past to check for weak passwords among my users
when I was sysadmin for a small network of Sun workstations used by
physicists for computation.

So, I decided to install it on my current system to verify that I'm
using reasonably good passwords.  I tried to install it from the
ports collection and it complained that it (a) couldn't find it in
/usr/ports//usr/ports/distfiles -- therefore I fetched a copy of
the same version that *should* have been in /usr/ports, installed
it in /usr/ports/distfiles and tried again.  And again.  And ran
rehash and tried again.  And again.  And again a few minutes ago.

Here's what make had to say:

===>  Vulnerability check disabled
===>  Extracting for crack-5.0
=> Checksum mismatch for crack5.0.tar.gz.
===>  Refetch for 1 more times files: crack5.0.tar.gz 
===>  Vulnerability check disabled
=> crack5.0.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/.
=> Attempting to fetch from
ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/pwdutils/crack/.
fetch:
ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/pwdutils/crack/crack5.0.tar.gz:
size unknown
fetch:
ftp://ftp.cerias.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/pwdutils/crack/crack5.0.tar.gz:
size of remote file is not known
^C

And here's what ls has to say:

PC% ls -gl /usr/ports/distfiles//crack*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2945388 Mar 11 22:28
/usr/ports/distfiles//crack5.0.tar.gz

Can you explain to me why it is that the port cannot find something
that's there?

I thought at first that it was a permission problem but:

PC% ls -gl /usr/ports/distfiles/c*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    16981 Aug 25  2001 /usr/ports/distfiles/cd-console-2.4.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2945388 Mar 11 22:28 /usr/ports/distfiles/crack5.0.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   167174 May  2  2003 /usr/ports/distfiles/crossword-0.8.3.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    16375 Jul 22  2002 /usr/ports/distfiles/crw-1.03.tar.gz
PC% 

I've had various problems with the ports collection at times but
can't recall it ever before being unable to file a file that is
obviously there.

Thanks for any help or suggestions.

Kindest regards,

Charlie
--  
Charlie Sorsby
        crs at swcp.com
        P. O. Box 1225
        Edgewood, NM 87015
        USA

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PS  Is there anything in the port that I won't get or use if I just
unpack the distribution, run configure, and then make manually?