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.TH mailer "8" "October 2013" "Lars Vogdt" "John"
.SH NAME
Mailer \- notify users about crackable passwords

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B mailer <password-file>
.br

.SH DESCRIPTION
.B mailer
is a script to send mail to all users whose passwords got cracked.
This is not always a good idea, though, since lots of people do not
check their e-mail or ignore such messages, and the messages can be a
hint for crackers.

You should probably deploy proactive password strength checking, such as
with passwdqc, before you ask users to change their passwords - whether
using this script or otherwise.  And you should edit the message inside
the script before possibly using it.

Copyright (c) 1996-98 by Solar Designer
# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
# modification, are permitted.
# There's ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, express or implied.
# (This is a heavily cut-down "BSD license".)
#

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fBpassword-file\fR
The file containing all the passwords (for example /etc/shadow on modern 
Linux systems.
.SH FILES
.TP
.IP /usr/sbin/mailer
.SH AUTHOR
John the Ripper password cracker is free and Open Source software. 
Copyright (c) 1996-98 by Solar Designer.

This manual page was written by Lars Vogdt for the openSUSE operating system 
(but it may be freely used, modified, and redistributed by others).

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