Jim Gifford wrote these words on 08/05/05 00:07 CST: > Randy what educational value does cracklib add if it's used with Shadow > in LFS?
Glad you asked Jim. Installing the CrackLib library and having Shadow link against it shows folks how to set up and use a word dictionary to guard against weak passwords. It works perfectly. Shadow natively supports it. It prevents users of the system from creating easy-to-guess passwords. But you already knew this Jim. -- 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] 00:09:01 up 124 days, 23:42, 2 users, load average: 1.30, 1.04, 0.62 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
