Package: john
Version: 1.6-33
Severity: minor

The john manpage says:

        "Once John finds a password, it will be printed to
        the terminal and saved into a file called
        ~/john.pot."

and

        "While cracking, you can press any key for status,
        or Ctrl+C to abort  the  session,  saving  point
        information  to  a  file  ( ~/restore by default)."

However, a trial run of john demonstrates  that  it  creates
./john.pot and ./restore (i.e. CWD not $HOME).

I was writing a quick patch to the manpage  when  I  noticed
that it seems the upstream documents  also  refer  to  these
filenames and others similar, so it will have to  be  a  bit
more extensive.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-jmtd
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages john depends on:
ii  debconf                     1.4.30.13    Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                        1.10.28      Package maintenance system for Deb
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

-- debconf information:
  john/cronjob: false
  john/noconfigfile:
  john/cronjob-replacement: true
  john/wordlist: /usr/share/john/password.lst
  john/no-replacement:


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