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John the Ripper: Passwords displayed in UPPER case

I am using John the Ripper to crack passwords from my Windows Domain. (I'm the admin).
It always displays the passwords in upper case. Is there a setting that will display them in their true (mixed) case?

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This comes from a flaw in the way some windows system's are setup to store passwords, I belive this is the Unix/Linux compatible type where case doesn't matter. John the ripper cracks these becasue it's easier to guess than the mixed case passwords. I would suggest running pwdump on your domain to obtain the true MD5 hashes of the passwords.
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kamichie,
I did run pwdump to create the file and then fed it into John the Ripper.
Since people rarely use upper case in their passwords, I knew that John must be displaying them in upper.
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Makes sense. Thanks