hello
whenever i try to use medusa it says; FATAL: Failed to open file /root/desktop/10000.lst - No such file or directory
but the file exists on my desktop i personally make a file using this command " nano 10000.lst " then i put 10000 words in to it, then ctrl+x then Y and then i moved this file to my desktop
i also changed it to .txt but didn't work

here are commands i use, but non of them works, always the same thing happens

" medusa -h (hostname) -u root -P /root/desktop/10000.lst -m ftp "
" medusa -h (hostname) -u root -P /root/desktop/10000 -m ftp "
" medusa -h (hostname) -u root -P root/desktop/10000.lst -m ftp"
" medusa -h (hostname) -u root -P root/desktop/10000 -m ftp "
" medusa -h (hostname) -u root -P /root/desktop/10000.txt -m ftp "
" medusa -h (hostname) -u root -P root/desktop/10000.txt -m ftp "

Your desktop is more than likely not located at /root/desktop (and may even have an initial capital letter i.e. /root/Desktop).

So, to give us a clue what is happening, which Linux distro are you using, and are you logged in as a user or as root?

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im using kali linux 64 bit vmware image on a virtual machine
here are some thing that may help you find out if i've logged in as a root user
" terminal says root@kali "
" username is 'root' "
" there is not any warning to tell me ( you logged in as a root user be careful of what you're doing ) kali linux light kept showing this warning "

Ok, so you're root.

Can you please paste the output from ls /

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sometimes you entered /root, sometimes without / . Probably one of them is incorrect.

root@kali:~# ls /
0 dev initrd.img lib64 mnt root srv usr vmlinuz.old
bin etc initrd.img.old lost+found opt run sys var
boot home lib media proc sbin tmp vmlinuz

Thanks. Now please paste the output from ls /root

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Use this command to find the actual path of your file. Then plug it into your medusa command.

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root@kali:~# ls /root
10000.lst Desktop Downloads Pictures Templates
10k Documents Music Public Videos

So with that output I would expect it to be this:

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In addition to szboardstretcher's comment:

Linux directory and file names are case-sensitive.

So, if you want to refer to the file that's on your desktop, use:

/root/Desktop/... instead of /root/desktop/...

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worked although it shows the same path
" root@kali:~# find / -name 10000.lst /root/Desktop/10000.lst "
i copy pasted the path into the terminal and it worked...

ahhh yeah right desktop doesn't work while Desktop works
i didn't know i have to pay attention to upper and lower cases
thanks for your time you helped me alot

Congrats. I'd like to throw out some advice too. Kali is an advanced distribution for penetration testing based off of Backtrack - well sort of anyway - Kali is debian based and Backtrack was some live distribution. Anyway.

If you are having a hard time with just moving around the file system, you might want to take a step back and learn the basics first, before pushing ahead into the distribution. Here are some beginner links from google if you are interested.

http://linuxcommand.org/
http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/
https://linuxnewbieguide.org/overview-of-chapters/

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ahh yeah basics sounds amazing.. thanks for sharing your opinion