Bug 1120434

Summary:	switch to using libpwquality instead of cracklib for password strength checks
Product:	[Retired] Beaker	Reporter:	Dan Callaghan <dcallagh>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Martin Styk <mastyk>
Status:	CLOSED NEXTRELEASE	QA Contact:	tools-bugs <tools-bugs>
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Version:	0.17	CC:	mastyk
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Description Dan Callaghan 2014-07-16 22:53:18 UTC

Upstream status of cracklib is unclear, libpwquality is an actively maintained Red Hat project, and there seems to be a general push towards using it instead of cracklib directly.

https://fedorahosted.org/libpwquality/

We could also benefit from its password suggestion feature (not something Beaker offers currently).

Comment 2 Dan Callaghan 2017-12-20 05:23:55 UTC

https://gerrit.beaker-project.org/5953

Comment 3 Dan Callaghan 2017-12-20 22:30:08 UTC

Just noticed that libpwquality is not in RHEL6 (it's in EPEL6). So this can probably wait until Beaker is targetting RHEL7 only.