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Bugtraq: Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack

Re: Not so much a bug as a warning of new brute force attack

From: Russell Street <r.street_at_auckland.ac.nz>
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
Received on Jun 04 1996

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