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Re: Red Hat Linux: passwd
From: "Andy Hibbins" <andy () andyhibbins me uk>
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:49:40 -0000 (GMT)
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?
If you look at the /etc/pam.d/passwd file you'll see that passwd checks the password against the pam_cracklib.so module. After running strings against this module it appears pam_cracklib.so calls the libcrack.so.x shared library. Hope this helps. Andy Hibbins _______________________________________ This email was sent using SquirrelMail. "Webmail for nuts!" http://squirrelmail.org/
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