./security/libcrack, Password checking library

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Branch: pkgsrc-2009Q1, Version: 2.7nb1, Package name: libcrack-2.7nb1, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users

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 be guessed by "Crack" by filtering them out, at source.

CrackLib is an offshoot of the version 5 "Crack" software, and
contains a considerable number of ideas nicked from the new software.

NOTE THIS WELL: CrackLib is NOT a replacement "passwd" program.
CrackLib is a LIBRARY. CrackLib is what trendy marketdroid types would
probably call an "enabler".

The idea is that you wire it into your _own_ "passwd" program (if you
have source); alternatively, you wire it into something like "shadow"
from off of the net. You can use it in other things, too.


Required to build:
[devel/libtool-base]

Master sites:

SHA1: 393688e84fbf12b8359f02564211e89ac5be8b68
RMD160: 3a7b3eb1a7d9dda2d6d0384daa2e4ba233e3c709
Filesize: 20.411 KB

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