From: archer@frmug.fr.mugnet.org (Vincent Archer) Newsgroups: alt.security,resif.unix Subject: Re: Need exhaustive list of French first names Message-ID: <1991Sep9.204904.20329@frmug.fr.mugnet.org> Date: 9 Sep 91 20:49:04 GMT References: Organization: Minix User Group France In article dank@blacks.jpl.nasa.gov (Dan Kegel) writes: >[I apologize for posting in English to resif.unix, but it's on topic] Well, resif.divers (divers = misc) would have been better in this case... >BUT: one of my French-speaking users chose a French first name as her >password, and crack could not find it. My French dictionary >seems to include very few French first names. > >Please, does anyone have a good list of French first names online? I'll send you my cops French password dictionary. It is pretty good, found about a fifth of my users passwords the first time I ran it... :-( (Includes the whole calendar, plus a handful of other usual names, like astrological signs and some other basic crap) I haven't installed the npassword system, but users trying to pick a simple password have little windows pop-up from nowhere with a nasty message reminding them that their passwords are unsecure from time to time... -- Vincent Archer Email: archer@frmug.fr.mugnet.org Or: archer@evry.cnes.fr Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.