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From: taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw (Brian Tao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: npasswd
Date: 6 Sep 1995 08:17:09 GMT
Organization: Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
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References: <42d72u$ktg@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <42fapf$7r7@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <42hfr6$430@gate.sinica.edu.tw> <42iepu$693@almond.elite.net>
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In article <42iepu$693@almond.elite.net>, Nate Lawson <nate@elite.net> wrote:
>
>Cracklib has much more extensive checks than npasswd and I recommend it 
>wholeheartedly over the present version of npasswd.

    Thanks, I'll give that a shot once I've got my machine setup again
in Toronto.  I guess you haven't looked at npasswd 2.0 yet?
-- 
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org