Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 08/08/05 00:17 CST: > Maybe this wording: > > The wordlist used with Cracklib should contain combinations of > keystrokes that are typically chosen by the users as bad (guessable) > passwords. Otherwise, Cracklib would encourage users to choose passwords > that are not in the list, but still bad, i.e. provide little or no > additional security.
I'm not sure we want to use this. I simply don't understand what this means. I know what it is *supposed* to mean, but the way it is written doesn't allow me to comprehend how to avoid the problem. > The default wordlist recommended above for downloading mostly satisfies > this role in English-speaking countries. In other situations, it may be > necessary to download (or even create) additional wordlists. This is good if we can come up with something a bit different to precede it. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 01:00:00 up 128 days, 33 min, 5 users, load average: 0.42, 0.37, 0.54 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
