-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2012-20331 2012-12-14 06:36:59 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : cracklib Product : Fedora 18 Version : 2.8.22 Release : 2.fc18 URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/cracklib/ Summary : A password-checking library Description : 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: In applications and libraries which use cracklib, errors encountered while opening the cracklib dictionary now return a failure message rather than causing the calling process to exit. For developers who are building applications or libraries which use cracklib, the FascistLook() function is now declared in <packer.h>, allowing applications to test multiple candidate passwords without having to reopen the dictionaries for each one. This update also corrects a packaging bug which prevented cracklib from using compressed dictionaries (#888876). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #887461 - cracklib-2.8.22 is available https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=887461 [ 2 ] Bug #888876 - missing BuildRequire for zlib-devel https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=888876 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update cracklib' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
