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Re: passwd strength (cmd line)



"Farkas, Illes" writes:

> Hi,
>
> Do you happen to know of a simple command-line utility checking the
> strength of a password that the user enters (by typing)? There are
> detailed forms online, for example this one: http://
> www.passwordmeter.com/. But this works with plain http, not https, so
> why would users enter their passwords here. And even if it worked with
> https, I wouldn't be happy with someone receiving our passwords.

Not as a standalone program, but you have `libcrack2' in Debian. If you
don't want write a small program with it, aptitude reports that
`revelation', a GNOME password manager uses that library, so maybe you
can have a try.

-- 
Alberto


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