System Environment/Libraries

cracklib: A password-checking library.

Name:cracklib Vendor:Scientific Linux
Version:2.7 License:Artistic
Release:29 URL:http://www.crypticide.org/users/alecm/
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.

Arch: i386

Download:cracklib-2.7-29.i386.rpm
Build Date:Wed Feb 16 23:24:05 2005
Packager:
Size:46 KiB

Arch: ia64

Download:cracklib-2.7-29.ia64.rpm
Build Date:Mon Mar 21 07:06:17 2005
Packager:
Size:77 KiB

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

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