afppasswd(1) [redhat man page]

AFPPASSWD(1)						      General Commands Manual						      AFPPASSWD(1)

NAME

       afppasswd - netatalk password maintenance utility

SYNOPSIS

       afppasswd [ -acfn ] [ -p passwd file ] [ -u minimum uid ]

DESCRIPTION

       afppasswd allows the maintenance of afppasswd files created by netatalk for use by some User Authentication Modules (UAMs)

       afppasswd  can  either  be  called by root with parameters, or can be called by local system users with no parameters to change their pass-
       words.

EXAMPLE

       Local user changing their own password:

		   example% afppasswd
		   Enter NEW AFP password: (hidden)
		   Enter NEW AFP password again: (hidden)
		   afppasswd: updated password.

OPTIONS

       -a     Add a new user to the afppasswd file.

       -c     Create and/or initialize afppasswd file or specific user.

       -f     Force the current action.

       -p path
	      Path to afppasswd file.

       -n     If cracklib support is built into netatalk this option will cause cracklib checking to be disabled, if the superuser does  not  want
	      to have the password run against the cracklib dictionary.

       -u minimum uid
	      This is the minimum user id (uid) that afppasswd will use when creating users.

SEE ALSO

       afpd(8), atalkd(8).

netatalk 1.5							    03 Aug 2000 						      AFPPASSWD(1)

FascistCheck(3) 					      Debian GNU/Linux manual						   FascistCheck(3)

NAME

       FascistCheck - a pro-active password checker library

SYNOPSIS

       #include <crack.h>

       static char const CRACKLIB_DICTPATH[] =	...;

       extern char const *
       FascistCheck(char const passwd[], char const dictpath[]);

DESCRIPTION

       cracklib is a library containing the FascistCheck C function which may be used in a "passwd" like program.  The idea is simple: try to pre-
       vent users from choosing passwords that could be guessed by "crack" by filtering them out, at source.  cracklib is an offshoot of  the  the
       version 5 of the "crack" software and contains a considerable number of ideas nicked from the new software.

       The  first formal argument password is the potential password.  The second formal argument dictpath is the full path name + filename prefix
       of the cracklib dictionary database.  FascistCheck returns the NULL pointer for a good password, or a pointer to a diagnostic string if	it
       is a weak password.

       The  database  is  in  a  binary format generated by the utilities crack_mkdict(8) and crack_packer(8).	On a Debian system the database is
       located in the directory defined by the static constant CRACKLIB_DICTPATH and is set to	/var/cache/cracklib/cracklib_dict.   None  of  the
       subroutines  in	the  cracklib  libraries have this location hard-coded into their implementations.  It is generated daily with the program
       /etc/cron.daily/cracklib.

FILES

       /var/cache/cracklib/cracklib_dict.[hwm|pwd|pwi]
	      cracklib dictionary database files used by utilities.

       /etc/cron.daily/cracklib
	      cracklib daily cron program to rebuild the cracklib dictionary database.

       /etc/cracklib/cracklib.conf
	      cracklib configuration file used by the cracklib daily cron program to rebuild the cracklib dictionary database.

       /usr/sbin/crack_mkdict
	      cracklib shell script to create initial list of words for dictionary database.

       /usr/share/doc/cracklib2-dev/examples
	      Example cc(1) source files that show how FascistCheck is used.

SEE ALSO

       crack_teststr(8), crack_mkdict(8), update-cracklib(8)
       /usr/share/doc/cracklib2-dev/examples
       /usr/share/doc/cracklib2/cracklib2.html
       /usr/share/doc/cracklib2-dev/cracklib2-dev.html

AUTHOR

       cracklib2 is written by Alec Muffett <alecm@crypto.dircon.co.uk>. Manual added by Jean Pierre LeJacq <jplejacq@quoininc.com>.

2.7-8.5 						  Wed, 3 Oct 2001 01:37:09 +0100					   FascistCheck(3)