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.
* Tue Jul 25 2023 MSVSphere Packaging Team <packager@msvsphere.ru> - 2.9.6-15
- Rebuilt for MSVSphere 8.8
* Mon Nov 26 2018 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 2.9.6-15
- Fix regression in dictionary creation and lookup
* Tue Oct 09 2018 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 2.9.6-14
- Updated translations
* Wed Feb 21 2018 Tomáš Mráz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 2.9.6-13
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* Wed Feb 07 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.9.6-12
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* Sat Feb 03 2018 Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org> - 2.9.6-11
- Switch to %ldconfig_scriptlets
* Wed Jan 03 2018 Iryna Shcherbina <ishcherb@redhat.com> - 2.9.6-10
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(See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FinalizingFedoraSwitchtoPython3)
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* Sat Aug 19 2017 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl> - 2.9.6-8
- Python 2 binary package renamed to python2-cracklib
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