John the Ripper function

Install John the Ripper from Debian clean install.  On benchmark test "john --test" fails and exits.  Unable to locate John.ini


Solution;

fopen: $JOHN/john.ini: No such file or directory

touch john.ini

create the ini using touch

Now works

Good article on John

http://linuxconfig.org/password-cracking-with-john-the-ripper-on-linux