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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: npasswd
Date: 6 Sep 1995 11:25:33 +0200
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Nate Lawson <nate@elite.net> wrote:
>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.
But make it optional. Many people would hate the bloat otherwise.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)