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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!newshost.marcam.com!Empire.Net!news.net99.net!berry.elite.net!almond.elite.net!not-for-mail From: nate@elite.net (Nate Lawson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: npasswd Date: 5 Sep 1995 14:17:50 -0700 Organization: Elite Networking (Merced, CA) Lines: 29 Message-ID: <42iepu$693@almond.elite.net> References: <42d72u$ktg@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <42fapf$7r7@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <42hfr6$430@gate.sinica.edu.tw> NNTP-Posting-Host: nate@elite.net Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> wrote: >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. I originally started with npasswd, but it would core dump and didn't seem to be easy to port to the 4.4 db passwd system. Also, I thought that the code was a horrible mess. Instead, try taking the source from /usr/src/usr.bin/passwd and add in the cracklib support (coast.cs.purdue.edu:/pub/tools/unix/cracklib* or something like that). The README in the cracklib distribution has a diff for passwd that will work. Cracklib has much more extensive checks than npasswd and I recommend it wholeheartedly over the present version of npasswd. -Nate