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- From: vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp)
- Subject: Re: Passwd front-end
- Message-ID: <vanepp.715672480@sfu.ca>
- Keywords: passwd, help,
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <mgb.715218396@s1.elec.uq.oz.au>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 05:54:40 GMT
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- mgb@elec.uq.oz.au (Michael Barlow) writes:
-
- >Hi. We're looking for a front-end replacement for the standard passwd
- >program that will run on an sgi machine (4D/440 and a few Indigos).
-
- >In particular we'd like a program that checked that the password was
- >"intelligent"; in effect running some sort of password checking before
- >accepting the password.
-
- >Apparently there are such programs for other machine architectures but
- >we haven't heard of such for sgi machines. If anyone could point us in the
- >right direction we'd be greatly appreciative.
-
- >Thanks in advance.
-
- > Michael (Spike) Barlow
-
- Two choices I know of, npasswd and passwd+. We are running a slightly more
- paranoid version of npasswd on our SGIs and I don't remember any particular
- problems (other than adding the -cckr compiler flag) porting it, but that
- was a while ago. Archie should find either of these.
-
- Peter Van Epp / Operations and Technical Support
- Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
-