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To: Clary Harridge <clary@s4.elec.uq.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: crack for freebsd 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Sep 1995 12:04:47 +1000."
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Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1995 03:38:20 +0100
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From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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In message <199509200204.MAA09083@s4.elec.uq.edu.au>, Clary Harridge writes:
>Is there a version of crack somewhere which knows how to handle the
>current FreeBSD encryption algorithms.

You mean the MD5 system that comes in the base installation? Not that
I know of.

Best way to check for weak user passwords is to use something like
`npasswd', which runs the password through a dictionary scan before it
allows them to set it...

Gary