guys I was giving Hydra a try, because is listed as the top 10 password crackers at insecure.org, behind cain, and john, but so far no luck unlike cain that uses MITM attack, Hydra launches a brute force using dictionary attack, and has a variety of use like choosing desire service, port, target...etc, but so far every time I use it I get a bunch of errors coming back, it does not even launches the attack or stablish connection..........has anybody used it before? and with success
here is the output I get:
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** (xhydra:14224): WARNING **: callbacks.c 529: popen_rw_unbuffered: execv() returned

** (xhydra:14224): WARNING **: /usr/local/bin/hydra

** (xhydra:14224): WARNING **: 10.200.50.1

** (xhydra:14224): WARNING **: ftp

** (xhydra:14224): WARNING **: -l

** (xhydra:14224): WARNING **: administrator

** (xhydra:14224): WARNING **: -P

** (xhydra:14224): WARNING **: /media/hd2/dictionaries/password.txt

** (xhydra:14224): WARNING **: -e

** (xhydra:14224): WARNING **: ns

** (xhydra:14224): WARNING **: -t

** (xhydra:14224): WARNING **: 36

** ERROR **: file callbacks.c: line 544 (popen_re_unbuffered): should not be reached
aborting...
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thanks