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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.ci.com.au!news.vision.net.au!usenet From: "David Benn" <dbenn@vision.net.au> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Proactive Passwd Checker? Date: 19 Sep 1996 04:04:55 GMT Organization: Vision Internet Services Lines: 24 Message-ID: <01bba6a9$4f87bc00$151711cb@sun.vision.net.au> References: <51p246$h2g@netnews1.apci.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sun.vision.net.au X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Jeff Nadler nadlerje@ttown.apci.com wrote in article <51p246$h2g@netnews1.apci.com>... > Greetings, > > I was wondering if anyone has installed a proactive password checker on their BSDI box, > something like Passwd+, npasswd, or anlpasswd. These all require modifications to work under > BSDI & with shadow password files, and I was hoping someone else has already done this so that I > don't have to reinvent the wheel. Thanks for any info/leads.... Have you thought about writing a poppassd client? This does reasonable checks, and you can also do other checks against /usr/share/dict/words. I've written a Web-based password changer (CGI) which does a heap of checks both of the user who's trying to change his/her password and the proposed new password. It also uses poppassd. Rgds, David Benn