Linux check passwords against a dictionary attack

Posted by nixcraft on Dec 27, 2006 1:00 AM EDT
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A dictionary attack is a technique for defeating a cipher or authentication mechanism by trying to determine its decryption key or passphrase by searching a large number of possibilities. You can be configured to verify that passwords cannot be guessed easily using Linux PAM module called pam_cracklib.so. This article describes this configuration.

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Can also use John the Ripper swbrown 0 4,211 Dec 27, 2006 3:28 AM

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