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Re: Chapter 8 security
From: Steven M. Bellovin (smb
research.att.com)
Date: Fri Apr 16 2004 - 14:12:38 CDT
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In message <20040416190325.GA26196panix.com>, Thor Lancelot Simon writes:
>
>1) The password-strength requirements earlier in the document (you'll need
> to modify /etc/passwd to enforce these restrictions, but I believe you
> can in fact use the cracklib package to do this quite easily)
>
There's another section that speaks of password generation. See pkgsrc/
security/apg, which implements a NIST scheme for password generation.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
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