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Date:      Wed, 20 Sep 1995 03:38:20 +0100
From:      Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
To:        Clary Harridge <clary@s4.elec.uq.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: crack for freebsd 
Message-ID:  <1448.811564700@palmer.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Sep 1995 12:04:47 %2B1000." <199509200204.MAA09083@s4.elec.uq.edu.au> 

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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




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