Re: insecure passwords...

[Tyler Allison <allison@above.net>]

On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 11:43:24PM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 03:45:51PM -0400, Aaron Jackson wrote:
> > I would like to force new (and old) users to create passwords
> > that are not so easy to guess.
> 
> hi!
> you can try pwtest:
> 	ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/utilities/pwtest/

You can also try Epasswd. It's a full replacement for passwd that does
everything you could ever want :) It hasn't been ported to OpenBSD that
I know of but it's clean code and should be easily done. The author might
even do it for you if you showed interest :)

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/Groups/Security/epasswd/

-Tyler
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