On Jun 10, 2006, at 10:32 AM, Luke Plant wrote:
>
> On Saturday 10 June 2006 14:40, Todd O'Bryan wrote:
>> What do people use to verify the strength of user passwords? Is there
>> a Python library out there that's good?
>>
>> I've found python-crack, but that requires cracklib to be installed
>> on the server and I'd prefer something self-contained.
>
> I use John the Ripper ('sudo apt-get install john' for Debian users,
> which I guess you're not, looking at your mail agent). It's not a
> python program, and but assuming you want to use it on a Linux/Unix
> box, it should be easy enough to compile it as a standalone binary --
> it doesn't seem to depend on any libraries except standard C libs.
Yeah. I think I could do the same with cracklib. I was just hoping to
use something portable that could live in my django project, so I
wouldn't have any extra dependencies.
Thanks for the pointer, though.
Todd
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