On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Anyone know of a decent password checker?
Crack is the "standard" password strength checker for Unix.
A quick Google search seems to indicate http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/coast/
is the closest thing to a home "crack" has.
Red Hat Linux includes cracklib, a library version of crack. One could
write a C front-end program in about five minutes, I expect. See the files in
/usr/doc/cracklib-$VERSION for the gory details.
In fact, Red Hat Linux's passwd program (or, more correctly, one of the PAM
modules it invokes) automatically checks the password against cracklib. That
doesn't help you much if you're not running RHL, tho... :)
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