Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!aplcen!haven!adm!news From: mchinni@pica.army.mil (Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: password checker Message-ID: <22024@adm.BRL.MIL> Date: 9 Jan 90 22:04:25 GMT Sender: news@adm.BRL.MIL Lines: 11 Hi, Does anyone have or know where I can get a program to encrypt a set of clear-text trial passwords using all the seeds used in /etc/passwd, and then compare the encryptions with the encrypted passwords in /etc/passwd ? My list of trial passwords will NOT have lots of words, just the more simple ones (all lower-case, all letters, 5-8 chars. long, all real words). ...Mike Chinni