Re: preventing weak passwords

1999-07-09 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: > im really sick of almost having to remind my users to use > non-dictionary passwords. we provide a web based interface to > change their passwords and so the checking done by executing > /usr/bin/passwd is not implemented. im thinking of "dict

Re: preventing weak passwords

1999-07-09 Thread Carl Mummert
You can get better versions of passwd(1) that prevent users from setting bad passwords in teh first place - we use one called npasswd, which works a little TOO well (it screens out my attempts to give new users simple passwords). I can give you the source if you need it, but there is a distro si

Re: preventing weak passwords

1999-07-09 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Jul 08, 1999 at 07:39:44AM +0800, Chad A. Adlawan wrote: > > hello all, > im really sick of almost having to remind my users to use > non-dictionary passwords. we provide a web based interface to change > their passwords and so the checking done by executing /usr/bin/passwd > is

preventing weak passwords

1999-07-07 Thread Chad A. Adlawan
hello all, im really sick of almost having to remind my users to use non-dictionary passwords. we provide a web based interface to change their passwords and so the checking done by executing /usr/bin/passwd is not implemented. im thinking of "dictionary cracking" my users passwords so that