Quote Originally Posted by doobie View Post
What are you trying to crack? The password? If so based on John The Ripper, I have it, but it won't let me login via that user name/password via ssh on port 22. I will need to get my setup back up to try it out.
I'm just trying to get in. If that means cracking the ssh password then so be it.

It could be that the passwords you got don't work, because they changed the username from root to something else, as that is more secure.