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Kali - Crackmapexec UTF error on rockyou

Kali - Crackmapexec UTF error on rockyou

Crackmapexec UTF error on Rockyou.txt in Kali Linux#

To fix encoding issues, convert the file to UTF-8 using iconv:

bash
iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 /usr/share/wordlists/rockyou.txt -o rockyou-utf8.txt

sudo cp rockyou-utf8.txt /usr/share/wordlists