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Package: libpam-pwquality

Description: PAM module to check password strength
libpwquality's 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.
This module can be plugged into the password stack of a given service to provide some plug-in strength-checking for passwords. The code was originaly based on pam_cracklib module and the module is backwards compatible with its options.
Homepage: https://github.com/libpwquality/libpwquality
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Manual pages:

pam_pwquality(8)

Other documents:

/usr/share/doc/libpam-pwquality

Other packages built from the same source:

libpwquality1 libpwquality-common

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