Project Summary
Library for password quality checking and generating random passwords.
The libpwquality library purpose is to provide common functions for password quality checking and also scoring them based on their apparent randomness. The library also provides a function for generating random passwords with good pronounceability. The library supports reading and parsing of a configuration file.
In the package there are also very simple utilities that use the library function and PAM module that can be used instead of pam_cracklib. The module supports all the options of pam_cracklib.
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
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took an estimated 1 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in September, 2011
ending with its most recent commit 3 months ago
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