Re: Red Hat Linux: passwd

[David Bernick <bernz () alpha bernztech org>]

> 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?

Crypt and libcrypt and cracklib. The dictionaries are in /usr/include by
default on redhat, i think. There's a perl module that you can use to
really dissect this if you're not ready to look at the actual code:

http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/D/DA/DANIEL/Crypt-Cracklib-0.01.tar.gz

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