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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!netaxs.com!socko.cdnow.com!heller From: heller@socko.cdnow.com (A. Karl Heller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Looking for better passwd program Date: 22 Oct 1996 22:29:21 GMT Organization: CDnow - The World's Largest Online Music Store http://cdnow.com Lines: 35 Message-ID: <54jhs1$h9a@netaxs.com> References: <3263F096.41C67EA6@jnet.vi> <5496cg$c8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <326CB9D8.41C67EA6@jnet.vi> Reply-To: heller@cdnow.com NNTP-Posting-Host: socko.cdnow.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] John Lucas (jlucas@jnet.vi) wrote: : J Wunsch wrote: : > : > John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi> wrote: : > : > > Has anyone run across a port of any of the better "passwd" replacements : > > such as "npasswd" for FreeBSD 2.x? If so please point me to it. : > : > What exactly do you expect from them? (Sorry for my ignorance, i : > simply don't know npasswd.) : > : > -- : > cheers, J"org : > : > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE : > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) : The "npasswd" program did two things: : 1. allows the setting of password policies (length etc). : 2. disallowed "dumb" passwords : The second part used the same algorithms as the 1988 Internet WORM program : (checks against user data, dictionaries etc) to prevent this sort of attack from : succeeding (because no one is allowed a password that would be broken in this : manner). : There are other "smart" password programs, but the only one I ever used was : "npasswd" on SunOS. : One other thing I would like to see that the FreeBSD passwd program doesn't seem : to do is authentication logging (I would like to see who has or has not changed : their password). Um... doesn't root get a list of password changes daily?