Module For Enforcing Password Strength

[Magnus Henoch]

Gordon Guthrie <gordon@REDACTED> writes:

> I was sitting fingers poised on the keyboard to write a module to test
> password strength and I though, "haud on, somebody musta done this"...
>
> Does anyone know of a library module that checks passwords for:
> * length
> * dictionary attack
> * contains numbers/punctuation
> * etc, etc

It sounds like you're looking for cracklib.  I've never used it myself,
but it seems to be living at http://sourceforge.net/projects/cracklib/
nowadays.  It's also packaged for many Linux distributions.

Magnus