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help with discovering bad passwords question

Is there of a scheme for discovering badly chosen user passwords from a Unix password file?

Im not learning anything bad or trying to hack,this a question that was given to me in an information security seminar.

Would password cracker be a correct answer?

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The utility "crack" is useful for this and can be configured so that weak passwords can be identified without reveiling them in the report so you can inform your users.

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