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5. Passwords shall not contain any dictionary word.

Bear with me as I close my eyes and hammer wantonly on my keyboard:

kjhjks;dfijwefasdkfj

Aha! First try, and I've already generated an insecure password containing five dictionary words. Until vowels are banned as well, I fear our national security is in peril.



did you actually check this against the unix dictionary? I only found: ['as', 'fa', 'fi', 'we']


What about 'i' and 'a'? So that's six (or seven including 'fas')


Oh-- the unix dictionary includes every letter as it's own word for some reason. So I required words to be length of >= 2. Probably my mistake.


No, just sort of boggle-eyed it. I was counting "fas" as well, as the plural of "fa".




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