krb5-strength 2.1 released

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Thu Oct 10 21:13:54 EDT 2013


I'm pleased to announce release 2.1 of krb5-strength.

krb5-strength provides a password quality plugin for the MIT Kerberos KDC
(specifically the kadmind server) and an external password quality program
for use with the Heimdal kpasswdd server.  Passwords can be tested with
CrackLib, checked against a CDB database of known weak passwords, checked
for length, checked for non-printable or non-ASCII characters that may be
difficult to enter reproducibly, required to contain a non-alphabetic
character, or any combination of these tests.  It supports both Heimdal
and MIT Kerberos (1.9 or later).

Changes from previous release:

    Fix the package build when CDB support is disabled or TinyCDB was not
    found.

    Some of the password rejection error messages have been changed to
    make them more accurate or comprehensible to the user.

    Passing --with-tinycdb to configure now correctly makes TinyCDB
    support mandatory without adding bogus directories to the library and
    include search paths.

You can download it from:

    <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/krb5-strength/>

This package is maintained using Git; see the instructions on the above
page to access the Git repository.

Debian packages have been uploaded to Debian unstable.

Please let me know of any problems or feature requests not already listed
in the TODO file.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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