Shavlik Technologies has a tool called Password Inspector. You can download a trial version from their website. It will rate your passwords on a level of security, how old it is and lots of other useful information. This will only work for windows but you will be able to get your point across. My other suggestion would be to put on your 'white hat' and use a tool like lophtcrack and see how many passwords you can crack in 5 minutes.
Good luck, I'm fighting the same battle. D. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Baulch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 9:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Password Checking Tool Before introducing our new policy to enforce password complexity requirments, my management team has asked me to gather valid examples of existing users whose passwords are too simple. We have a combined environment of Novell and ActiveDirectory/W2K. Is there a tool that I can run as an admin that can easily be used to do this? This is a one time deal to "sell" the policy to some of our problematic users (which are backbone of our business) so we cannot just say "here it is ... deal with it" for fear they may become disgruntled and the business close ;-( Any suggestions would be helpful- Shirley __________________________________________________ D O T E A S Y - "Join the web hosting revolution!" http://www.doteasy.com
