- Name: cracklib
- Version: 2.8.9
- Release: 3.1
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- Group: System Environment/Libraries
- License: Artistic
- Url: http://sourceforge.net/projects/cracklib/
- Summary: A password-checking library.
- Architecture: i386
- Size: 5681880
- Distribution: Red Hat (FC-6)
- Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
- Packager: Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
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.
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