[cobalt-users] Crack (was: Extract password from /etc/passwd)

[Rodolfo Paiz <rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> There's no way to decrypt the passwords as they
> use a one-way encryption method that hasn't been
> cracked. The only way to do it is to use
> a brute-force method allied with a dictionary.
>
> A common one used by Linux sysadmins to ensure that your
> users do have good passwords is the following:
> http://www.crypto.dircon.co.uk/download/c50-faq.html

Went looking for it, and it's exactly what I want to run on my users. But at
first glance the install seems like a bitch (pardon my French). Has anyone
made an RPM or PKG of this, or is it perhaps much simpler than it looks?

Any help would be appreciated; I'd far rather put system resources to work
trying to hack myself than wait until someone else is kind enough to do it.

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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>