Password cracker for RHEL 5

[Manuel Aróstegui]

On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 08:53 +0200, Kenneth Holter wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> 
> We'd like to (automatically) check the strength of our users passwords. We
> currently don't have a LDAP server, so the passwords are store in the
> servers' /etc/shadow file.
> Is there a light weight password cracking application for RHEL 5 either from
> the official repo or EPEL, that can be run on a per server basis?


It is not hard to find a ldap cracker (John The Ripper support LDAP
password cracking) the problem is to find or to build a nice and big
passwords dictionary.

Manuel.