>On Mon, 3 Jun 1996, Brett L. Hawn wrote: >What about a fascist passwd program which refers to a dictionary and >rejects "easy" passwords? Does such an animal exist? One of the sample programs in _Programming Perl_ is a perl passwd that does just that - checks for length, checks against dictionary files, checks to make sure you're not using simple two word combinations, makes sure they're not a social security or phone number, makes sure you're not using your userid/name, someone else on the systems userid/name, checks for license plates, sequences of consecutive keys on the keyboard, entries in /etc/hosts, makes sure that if you're using the "type in the first char of each word of a phrase" method of generating your password that you don't use a common phrase, and even keeps a history of the passwords you've used and doesn't let you reuse them. It seems pretty thorough. Joe Block <jpb@magicnet.net> System Administrator Magicnet Inc 407-657-2202 (v) 407-679-8562 (f)