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cracklib: A password-checking library.

Name:	cracklib	Vendor:	CERN (http://cern.ch/linux)
Version:	2.7	License:	Artistic
Release:	22	URL:	http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~crypto/

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 Jun 16 05:00:00 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin{%}redhat{*}com> 2.7-22

- rebuild

* Wed Jun 4 05:00:00 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith{%}redhat{*}com>

- rebuilt

* Wed Apr 30 05:00:00 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin{%}redhat{*}com>

- update URL

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