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cracklib: A password-checking library.
- Summary
- CrackLib tests passwords to determine whether they match certain
security-oriented characteristics, with the purpose of stopping users
from choosing passwords that are easy to guess. CrackLib performs
several tests on passwords: it tries to generate words from a username
and gecos entry and checks those words against the password; it checks
for simplistic patterns in passwords; and it checks for the password
in a dictionary.
CrackLib is actually a library containing a particular C function
which is used to check the password, as well as other C
functions. CrackLib is not a replacement for a passwd program; it must
be used in conjunction with an existing passwd program.
Install the cracklib package if you need a program to check users'
passwords to see if they are at least minimally secure. If you install
CrackLib, you will also want to install the cracklib-dicts package.
Changelog
- * Mon Jan 3 18:00:00 2005 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin{%}redhat{*}com> 2.7-29
- correctly build on 64-bit systems (part of #143417)
- patch so that 32- and 64-bit libcrack can read dictionaries which were
incorrectly generated on 64-bit systems of the same endianness (more #143417)
- include a sample cracklib magic file
- stop using /usr/dict/* when building the dictionary
- list words as a build requirement, which it is, instead of a run-time
requirement
- provide a virtual arch-specific dep in cracklib-dicts, require it in
cracklib (part of #143417)
- * Tue Jun 15 19:00:00 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith{%}redhat{*}com>
- rebuilt
- * Tue Mar 2 18:00:00 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith{%}redhat{*}com>
- rebuilt