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Message-ID: <44d79d00-d331-c65c-6cca-bc7648b2acec@oldum.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 15:52:17 +0200
From: Nikolay Kichukov <hijacker@...um.net>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: keepass2john cannot extract the hash from a keepass
 2.x database

Hello Alexander,
Indeed, the Gentoo ebuild deployed symlinks under /usr/sbin, all
pointing to the john binary. I just compiled it manually and I could
find the separate keepass2john binary under ../run/, thus I will modify
the ebuild to install those binaries from '../run/', instead of creating
symlinks.

Thank you for your help. This case can now be closed as the hash
produced by the binary allowed john to recover the passphrase from the
KDBX3.1 database.

Cheers,
-N

On 4/18/19 2:07 PM, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 09:56:10PM +0200, Nikolay Kichukov wrote:
>> The Passwords.kdbx file is the KeePass database file. It is the one I
>> need to get the hash from. So the sequence of commands is:
>>
>> $ keepass2john /tmp/Passwords.kdbx
>> Warning: invalid UTF-8 seen reading /tmp/Passwords.kdbx
>> Using default input encoding: UTF-8
>> No password hashes loaded (see FAQ)
> 
> This suggests that your keepass2john is actually a (sym)link to john,
> which is wrong.  It should be a separate program - and it is for me.
> 
> Can you please show the output of:
> 
> ls -l keepass2john
> ls -l `which keepass2john`
> uname -a
> 
> Also, why is it that you avoid the need to type "./" in front of those
> commands - do you have "." (the current directory) in your search PATH,
> or have you installed those programs on the system globally (and how)?
> 
> Alexander
> 



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