Information about the package, libpwquality, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libpwquality package is designed for, A library for password generation and password quality checking.
Package Name:
libpwquality
Summary:
A library for password generation and password quality checking
Description:
This is a library for password quality checks and generation of random passwords that pass the checks. This library uses the cracklib and cracklib dictionaries to perform some of the checks.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.1.1
Release:
1.el6
Size:
61 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD or GPL+
Control the libpwquality package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libpwquality
This command will install libpwquality on the server.
yum remove libpwquality
This command will un-install libpwquality on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libpwquality, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libpwquality
This command will un-install libpwquality on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libpwquality when using the -y flag.
yum update libpwquality
This command will update libpwquality to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libpwquality, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libpwquality
This command will update libpwquality to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove libpwquality when using the -y flag.
yum info libpwquality
This command will show you core information about the libpwquality package.
yum deplist libpwquality
This command will show you the dependencies for libpwquality. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update libpwquality
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libpwquality. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.