id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
1465	MIT Kerberos Password Checking	Randy McMurchy	blfs-book@…	"The MIT Kerberos package has code which will use a dictionary file
to check for strong passwords.

I suggest that the MIT Kerberos instructions add an ""Additional Download""
section to download the CrackLib dictionary

download: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cracklib/cracklib-words.gz
MD5 sum:  d18e670e5df560a8745e1b4dede8f84f
Size:     4.4 MB

and install it using the CrackLib instructions

install -v -m644 -D ../cracklib-words.gz \
    /usr/share/dict/cracklib-words.gz &&
gunzip -v /usr/share/dict/cracklib-words.gz &&
ln -v -s cracklib-words /usr/share/dict/words

then provide instructions in the configuration section to create
a kdc.conf file and add the dict_file flag to the file.

This would then install MIT Kerberos using strong password checking 
as the default. Unfortunately, I cannot find a way to use an additional
file (similar to the CrackLib cracklib-extra-words file) to use 
additional, site-specific words.

Perhaps a mention to add these site-specific extra words to the 
CrackLib dictionary would suffice.

Exectuve Summary of this bug:

If a site is worried (smart enough) to use a Kerberos authentication
system to provide strong and encrypted authentication, but does not
force users to use strong passwords, the security of the system is
drastically reduced, and can easily be compromised."	defect	closed	high		BOOK	SVN	medium	fixed