Kali Linux 2018: Windows Penetration Testing - Second Edition

My friend, Johnny

First, we will talk about my friend, Johnny. Johnny is a GUI frontend for my other friend, John. For most password cracking tasks, this is an easy way to use John. It uses the normal defaults for most password cracking sessions. Once you have captured some hashes, save them to a text file and open Johnny.

The following is a screenshot from the LxDE desktop showing where Johnny can be found. You can also find it on all the other desktops under the same header location, Applications | 05 - Password Attacks | johnny:

We are using the password hashes from a previous exploit earlier in the book, where we were passing the hash. ...