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cracklib: A password-checking library.

Name:	cracklib	Vendor:	Scientific Linux
Version:	2.8.9	License:	Artistic
Release:	3.3	URL:	http://sourceforge.net/projects/cracklib/

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

* Wed Jun 20 17:00:00 2007 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin{%}redhat{*}com> - 2.8.9-3.3

- 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

* Mon Jun 4 17:00:00 2007 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin{%}redhat{*}com> - 2.8.9-3.2

- fix check for the existence of dictionaries when the caller specifies a
  location (#225858, upstream #1644628)
- attempt to provide doc strings in the python module (more of #225858)

* Wed Jul 12 17:00:00 2006 Jesse Keating <jkeating{%}redhat{*}com> - 2.8.9-3.1

- rebuild

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