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| Name: cracklib | Distribution: Red Hat Linux |
| Version: 2.7 | Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. |
| Release: 8 | Build date: Fri Aug 2 00:29:21 2002 |
| Group: System Environment/Libraries | Build host: kull.hsv.redhat.com |
| Size: 90296 | Source RPM: cracklib-2.7-8.src.rpm |
| Packager: Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> | |
| Url: http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~crypto/ | |
| Summary: A password-checking library. | |
CrackLib tests passwords to determine whether they match certain security-oriented characteristics. You can use CrackLib to stop users from choosing passwords which would be easy to guess. CrackLib performs certain tests: * 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; * 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'll also want to install the cracklib-dicts package.
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* Thu Jul 13 2000 Prospector <bugzilla@redhat.com> - automatic rebuild * Wed Jun 28 2000 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> - FHS fixes - fix undeclared function warnings from the new compiler - fix URL * Sat Apr 08 2000 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com> - switched to use /usr/share/dict/words * Wed Apr 07 1999 Preston Brown <pbrown@redhat.com> - strip binaries * Mon Mar 22 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com> - auto rebuild in the new build environment (release 4) * Thu Jan 07 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com> - build for glibc 2.1 * Sun May 10 1998 Prospector System <bugs@redhat.com> - translations modified for de, fr, tr * Wed Mar 11 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com> - updated to 2.7 - build shared libraries * Tue Nov 04 1997 Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com> - added -fPIC * Tue Oct 14 1997 Donnie Barnes <djb@redhat.com> - basic spec file cleanups * Tue Jun 03 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com> - built against glibc
/usr/include/crack.h /usr/lib/libcrack.so /usr/lib/libcrack.so.2.7 /usr/share/doc/cracklib-2.7 /usr/share/doc/cracklib-2.7/HISTORY /usr/share/doc/cracklib-2.7/LICENCE /usr/share/doc/cracklib-2.7/MANIFEST /usr/share/doc/cracklib-2.7/POSTER /usr/share/doc/cracklib-2.7/README
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