I'm sure it's something obvious to most decent geeks but I guess I'm just not geeky enough.

I've tried the package suggested by qwerty12 but I can't make it work, I suspect I have the syntax wrong but I can't figure out where or how. I did manage to get into "root" Busybox or whatever it's called, but I couldn't make it run the a.out.gz package.

Next I downloaded "John the ripper" and tried to crack the thing from there. I did succeed in getting all those options but when I enter the "John crackme.txt" it politely informs me that john is not a recognised command or file or whatever.

Would someone be kind enough to help me figure out;

1) What the correct syntax is to run the a.out.gz package?
2) What I've done wrong with "John"?

or

3) What the infernal lock code is!


The hash code I have is

n900:lWki8yzuDks4

Many thanks.