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cracklib

• Summary: A password-checking library.
  
• URL: ftp://coast.cs.purdue.edu/pub/tools/unix/cracklib/
  
• Version: 2.7
  
• Release: 3
  
• Group: System Environment/Libraries
• License: artistic
  
• Installation size: 42,973 bytes
  
• Operating system: freemint
  
• Provides:
  • cracklib = 2.7-3
    
• Requires:
  • (none)
    
• Conflicts:
  • (none)
    
• Relocations: (none)
  
• Build date: Tue Apr 4 11:06:36 2000 UTC
  
• Upload date: Fri Apr 14 13:54:26 2000 UTC
  
• Packager: Guido Flohr (guido(at)freemint.de)
  
• Vendor: Sparemint
  
• Sources: cracklib-2.7-3.src.rpm (28,675 bytes)
  
• Last change: Frank Naumann <fnaumann@freemint.de> Mon Mar 27 09:00:00 2000 UTC
  - rebuild against new MiNT-Lib
• Description:
  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.

• Files:
  

  drwxr-xr-x    2 root    wheel               0 Apr  4  2000 /usr/doc/cracklib-2.7
  -rw-r--r--    1 root    wheel             373 Dec 31  1997 /usr/doc/cracklib-2.7/HISTORY
  -rw-r--r--    1 root    wheel            4851 Jul  9  1993 /usr/doc/cracklib-2.7/LICENCE
  -rw-r--r--    1 root    wheel            1338 Jul  9  1993 /usr/doc/cracklib-2.7/MANIFEST
  -rw-r--r--    1 root    wheel            1276 Jul  9  1993 /usr/doc/cracklib-2.7/POSTER
  -rw-r--r--    1 root    wheel            8983 Dec 14  1997 /usr/doc/cracklib-2.7/README
  -rw-r--r--    1 root    wheel             408 Apr  4  2000 /usr/include/crack.h
  -rw-r--r--    1 root    wheel           24720 Apr  4  2000 /usr/lib/libcrack.a
  

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