Re: Red Hat Linux: passwd

From: Andy Hibbins <andy(at)andyhibbins.me.uk>
Date: Wed Nov 27 2002 - 11:49:40 EST

> How does passwd determine if a password is based off a dictionary word

If you look at the /etc/pam.d/passwd file you'll see that passwd checks the password against the pam_cracklib.so module. After running strings against this module it appears pam_cracklib.so calls the libcrack.so.x shared library.

Hope this helps.

Andy Hibbins

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