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[cobalt-users] Question about preventing a user of changing his password / John the Ripper



4. Let one of your other machines stay up around the clock trying to
crack your own users' passwords anyway.


John the Ripper on a cron job as someone else suggested.

Speaking of which - I picked-up John the Ripper and it definitely looks like a good security tool to run against your users to make sure they're using good passwords. But the possible configuration options and methods of calling the program on 1 or various users, seems a bit complex (maybe not enough beer in me).

I'm curious if someone on the list who's using the program would mind sharing their cron-job entry as an example of how their calling the program on the RaQ's... I'm mostly concerned over CPU usage as well as the best method to use for calling various user accounts (to be checked)...

Thanks!
Craig
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