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Old 10-19-2007, 09:19 AM
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Originally Posted by cwihost View Post
I know that Cpanel has the new password strength meters in the Cpanel accounts where passwords can be changed. However is there any Cpanel utility that can check existing passwords and email them if the password is insecure or not strong?
For security reasons, I doubt this would be possible.

User passwords would have to be stored in plain text for them to be read and checked for strength. User passwords won't be stored in plain text, hence they cannot be read and checked for strength.
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