Re: Red Hat Linux: passwd
From: Johannes Ullrich (jullrich@euclidian.com)
Date: 11/27/02
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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:29:35 -0500 From: "Johannes Ullrich" <jullrich@euclidian.com> To: "ALBEE,RUSSELL. S FC2 (CV63 CS5)" <ALBEER@kitty-hawk.navy.mil>
The password check uses pam's 'cracklib' interface. For some details on
this features see /usr/share/doc/pam-0.75/txts/README.pam_cracklib
'cracklib' uses a wordlist from /usr/share/dict/words .
some details about cracklib:
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~crypto/download/cracklib,2.7.txt
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 05:50:25 +0900
"ALBEE,RUSSELL. S FC2 (CV63 CS5)" <ALBEER@kitty-hawk.navy.mil> wrote:
> How does passwd determine if a password is based off a dictionary word or
> not? Is there a file somewhere it references, a dictionary built into
> the code, or a algorithim it uses to check the password?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Russell
>
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