Practical Unix and Internet security (2nd ed.)
Practical Unix and Internet security (2nd ed.)
Ganymede: An Extensible and Customizable Directory Management Framework
LISA '98 Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Systems Administration
Accountworks: Users Create Accounts on SQL, Notes, NT, and UNIX
LISA '98 Proceedings of the 12th Conference on Systems Administration
AGUS: An Automatic Multi-Platform Account Generation System
LISA '95 Proceedings of the 9th USENIX conference on System administration
The Design and Implementation of a Network Account Management System
LISA '96 Proceedings of the 10th USENIX conference on System administration
Shuse At Two: Multi-Host Account Administration
LISA '97 Proceedings of the 11th USENIX conference on System administration
Samba and windows NT security interoperability
LISA-NT'00 Proceedings of the 3rd conference on Large Installation System Administration of Windows NT - Volume 3
Embracing and Extending Windows 2000
LISA '02 Proceedings of the 16th USENIX conference on System administration
LISA '05 Proceedings of the 19th conference on Large Installation System Administration Conference - Volume 19
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There are a plethora of password changing programs available for users and systems administrators to use. Most of the existing password changers, however, fall short in some way. Either they are still text based, requiring users to use unfamiliar tools in unfamiliar environments, or they are part of an all encompassing framework - designed to completely supplant the entire existing account creation, maintenance and distribution process. Our program is designed, first, to be usable without training or human support. Second, it is designed to use existing distribution databases such as NIS and LDAP. We integrate many of the features of prior password changers such as the Cracklib library, character classes, and rules for password selection. We try to provide easy extensibility both in terms of database support and by providing other user-focussed programs that use the same authentication framework.