As a conformant UNIX system, OS X works with the well-known directories that are standard on all UNIX flavors: ...

This is two times in a row that I meet a web login page with base64 encoded credentials. It is a feature Hydra does not have. A solution is to pre-encode the login/password lists. I would prefer not.

Web services are all the rage in development circles, but full-featured application servers like JBoss are terrible overkill for small system solutions. In many situations, simple RESTful interfaces ...