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Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack
From: r.street () auckland ac nz (Russell Street)
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 20:17:21 +1200
What about a fascist passwd program which refers to a dictionary and rejects "easy" passwords? Does such an animal exist?
Alec Mufett's cracklib (2.5) is what you want.
archie -s cracklib
will point you at it.
Combine with (say) John F. Haugh II's login replacement (archie for
shadow...) or recompile your favourite passwd program...
Russell
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