Cracking passwd file on suse systems
Hello... I want to check the passwd-file for insecure passwords. Is there a way to do this easily? User just have pop-access to their accounts, no telnet, so forcing the user to change the password from time to time is not possible. Greetins, Carsten Schmitz
Carsten Schmitz wrote:
Hello...
I want to check the passwd-file for insecure passwords. Is there a way to do this easily?
I think that SuSE carries in its distributions some tools for this, you can try "john the ripper" for example that i think comes directly with SuSE; You can search on www.linuxapps.com or another utility search engine anyway.
User just have pop-access to their accounts, no telnet, so forcing the user to change the password from time to time is not possible.
Greetins,
Carsten Schmitz
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User just have pop-access to their accounts, no telnet, so forcing the user to change the password from time to time is not possible. This is not right. you can set their login shell to /usr/bin/passwd and when they do a telnet they can change their password
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