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cracklib - A password-checking library.
- Description:
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.
Packages
| cracklib-2.8.9-3.3.x86_64
[63 KiB] |
Changelog
by Nalin Dahyabhai (2007-06-20):
- improve reports of out-of-memory exceptions so that they don't include a
bogus filename (more on #225858)
- improve reports of file-missing exceptions from the python module so that
they give the right filename
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| cracklib-2.8.9-3.3.i386
[58 KiB] |
Changelog
by Nalin Dahyabhai (2007-06-20):
- improve reports of out-of-memory exceptions so that they don't include a
bogus filename (more on #225858)
- improve reports of file-missing exceptions from the python module so that
they give the right filename
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