How do I check passwords against a dictionary?
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be configured to verify that passwords cannot be guessed easily. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux this check is performed by the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so
. It checks to ensure that passwords are a minimum length and verifies that a password does not occur in a dictionary.
The dictionary used by this module is...
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