On Tuesday, 5 February 2019 10:13:44 GMT Dale wrote: > After seeing your reply, I realize I just type the command and it > prompts me for a password. I ctrl c to exit. Well, ain't that > something? You can stop laughing now. ;-) > > It seems to think helloworld and reallysecurepassword is OK. I have to > question just how good this tool is at this point.
Quite! I think the cracklib acceptance parameters are not as strict as they could have been for modern computing, but I don't know how to tweak them. With johntheripper you have many options to tweak the characters tested, length, etc. when checking a password. PS. I wasn't laughing at you, I was laughing at the passwords cracklib thought were OK. -- Regards, Mick
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