Password Encryptor in C

Some time back, I had to implement a password encryption section in one of my bash programs. It seemed easy to use a C snippet rather than doing it in bash. This was something I got after searching a while.

[code language="C"]

#include stdlib.h #include unistd.h #include stdio.h #include crack.h #define DICTIONARY /usr/lib/cracklib_dict

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {

char *password; char *problem;

int status = 0; printf(\nEnter an empty password or Ctrl-D to quit.\n); while ((password = getpass(\nPassword: )) != NULL *password ) { if ((problem = FascistCheck(password, DICTIONARY)) != NULL) { printf(Bad password: %s.\n, problem); status = 1; } else { printf(Good password!\n); } } exit(status); } [/code]

Compile the code using the GNU C compiler.

# gcc filename.c -lcrack -o cracktest'