Bug 1120434 - switch to using libpwquality instead of cracklib for password strength checks
Summary: switch to using libpwquality instead of cracklib for password strength checks
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Beaker
Classification: Retired
Component: general
Version: 0.17
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: 27.0
Assignee: Martin Styk
QA Contact: tools-bugs
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-07-16 22:53 UTC by Dan Callaghan
Modified: 2019-04-11 08:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-04-11 08:17:17 UTC
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Beaker Project Gerrit 6458 0 None None None 2019-03-06 09:26:38 UTC

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.
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