Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 12:43:42AM +0100, Darren J Moffat wrote: >> Or put another way the indicator of strength doesn't really belong in an >> install/config tool but "in" the pam_chauthtok(3pam) module. This could >> be problematic due to the current PAM message interface but I'm willing >> to try giving it a go - it might work okay. > > With PAM you can't have a password strength bar that changes as you type > the password...
I think you might be able to do that with a cunning conversation function and cunning use of the PAM message blocks. I need to play with this though. -- Darren J Moffat