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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: npasswd
Date: 5 Sep 1995 12:29:26 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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In article <42fapf$7r7@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu> wrote:
>
>Now, if all you want is the part of npasswd that checks for
>stupid password choices, you might be able to make that part
>work with FreeBSD's existing passwd program. Other than that,
>I'd say wait for npasswd 2.0 to come out and try again.
I posted a query to freebsd-ports and freebsd-security a little
while back asking if anyone was involved in the npasswd 2.0 beta test
cycle (since the author is looking for representatives from different
OS's) and haven't received any replies yet. This is something I'd
like to have for FreeBSD, because checking for "bad" passwords when
the user changes it makes a lot more sense to me than running Crack on
your master.passwd once a week.
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org