On 8/5/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Gifford wrote these words on 08/04/05 18:33 CST: > > There any many different methods for user authentication and password > > setup. If it's just about creating a secure password, we should add > > npasswd. http://www.utexas.edu/cc/unix/software/npasswd > > If it *does* replace those programs, please explain how making users > learn new commands, just to change their passwords, make the system > better than if we used CrackLib. >
npasswd is a replacement for passwd, chfn and chsh - where there exists a command line option that npasswd does not understand, it calls the original passwd et al programs to perform the action. Note that npasswd was last updated in June 2000, and appears to solve a problem that no longer exists (additional functionality in password management) - the shadow password package provides all the listed npasswd functionality and more on linux systems that I can see during a quick read of the documentation (password aging, dictionary checks, etc). -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
