[ On Tuesday, February 24, 2004 at 09:45:12 (+0100), Vincent van Scherpenseel wrote: ]
> Subject: Password demands revisited
>
> [1] Secure passwd
> Some people say the passwd tool should be secured by implementing software 
> like cracklib, which tests the user input against known dictionaries. This is 
> a very nice way of achieving what we want, but it's some work

The work has already been done and it is readily available.  :-)

> and it's 
> conflicting with the standard passwd tool.

Once it has been integrated then there's no conflict whatsoever.

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