> How does passwd determine if a password is based off a dictionary word > or not? Is there a file somewhere it references, a dictionary built > into the code, or a algorithim it uses to check the password?
If you look at the /etc/pam.d/passwd file you'll see that passwd checks the password against the pam_cracklib.so module. After running strings against this module it appears pam_cracklib.so calls the libcrack.so.x shared library. Hope this helps. Andy Hibbins _______________________________________ This email was sent using SquirrelMail. "Webmail for nuts!" http://squirrelmail.org/
