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A PAM module to test passwords against previous leaks at haveibeenpwned.com

5 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2018-10-07 · latest 2024-06-07

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  1. …but credibly feature complete) thing. (It uses the HTTP service, though, not a local dump.) [1] https://github.com/skx/pam_pwnd
  2. …can design your defenses and moats well, you can secure your system with any method you want. [0]: https://github.com/skx/pam_pwnd [1]: http://www.linux-pam.org/Linux-PAM-html/sag-pam_cracklib.htm... [2]:…
    comment by bayindirh · 2020-12-31 · in Linux Hardening Guide
  3. …password-based authentication on a server which is shared you might consider using my PAM module: https://github.com/skx/pam_pwnd It does lookups of previously-leaked passwords. Best practice these days is SSH-keys for authentication, but…
  4. …pam_pwnd to deny the use of passwords which have appeared in the have I been pwned database(s): https://github.com/skx/pam_pwnd/ That's not exactly the same thing as denying a previously-valid password, but it is along similar lines.