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| author | Christopher Walker <kris240376@gmail.com> | 2010-05-12 23:30:04 +0200 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-05-12 23:30:04 +0200 |
| commit | f75af3af66dff97c60dc5f6b9c3c7732070cfb92 (patch) | |
| tree | e72074e92bbf661bfc8b932cae5e2bc2c0cea3a5 /libraries/cracklib/README | |
| parent | d80d4c20dff27cb9642a1cd2af958d3e4f8daae8 (diff) | |
libraries/cracklib: Added to 12.2 repository
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diff --git a/libraries/cracklib/README b/libraries/cracklib/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..f9c32adf2368 --- /dev/null +++ b/libraries/cracklib/README @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +CrackLib is a library containing a C function (well, lots of functions +really, but you only need to use one of them) which may be used in a +"passwd"-like program. + +The idea is simple: try to prevent users from choosing passwords that +could guessed by "Crack" by filtering them out at the source. + +An example of its use can be located in the SAMBA examples directory. +The crackcheck program included with SAMBA will use the library to ensure +that the user doesn't pick a weak password. + +A larger dictionary can be found here +http://downloads.sourceforge.net/cracklib/cracklib-words-20080507.gz |