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- From: mstgil@sol.acs.unt.edu (Marc Ph. A. J. St.-Gil - Solbourne Administrator)
- Subject: Re: Fascist password programs?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.181216.18606@mercury.unt.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 18:12:16 GMT
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- fhl@milton.u.washington.edu (Dean Pentcheff) writes:
-
- >Can someone point me to some code for a configurable, stringent passwd
- >program? I'd like something that checks (at least) for permutations of
- >the login name, common words, short length, repetitive sequences, etc.
-
- >I'm running SunOS 4.1.1 on an SparcStation IPC. The existing passwd
- >supports password aging but not shadow passwords.
-
- >Thanks!
-
- >-Dean
-
- Chapter 6 of the Nutshell book on the Perl programming language has
- a great passwd replacement for this purpose. You can ftp the source
- for all the examples from ftp.uu.net in /published/oreilly/nutshell/perl.
- perl is also widely available. See also, comp.lang.perl ;)
-
- Cheers,
- Marc
-