Re: Password Auditing

From: Christine Kronberg (seeker@shalla.de)
Date: Sun May 06 2007 - 03:45:35 EDT


On Fri, 4 May 2007, Mike Gibson wrote:
>
> Can anyone recommend a good password auditing tool. Basically I want
> to identify weak passwords on my servers (Windows, Linux, Unix).
> Ideally this would be done by a tool that could remotely fetch the
> local password database and then attempt to brute force the passwords
> and prepare a report in a central location.
>
> Any suggestions?

   I just did something similar for a customer. Basically I used
   john plus a dictionary and some handwork to create a reporting
   script. It was not a all-in-one solution but therefore had some
   more flexibility. Once you defined the specs you are looking
   for such a reporting script is easily written.
   Depending on what you define as "weak" using rainbow tables may
   serve your purpose better.

   Cheers,

   Christine Kronberg.

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