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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY cracklib-url "https://github.com/cracklib/cracklib/releases/download">
8
9 <!ENTITY cracklib-download-http "&cracklib-url;/v&cracklib-version;/cracklib-&cracklib-version;.tar.bz2">
10 <!ENTITY cracklib-download-ftp " ">
11 <!ENTITY cracklib-md5sum "97f3338c07861200194fc21efc57c9c9">
12 <!ENTITY cracklib-size "608 KB">
13 <!ENTITY cracklib-buildsize "6.8 MB">
14 <!ENTITY cracklib-time "0.1 SBU">
15
16 <!ENTITY crackdict-download "&cracklib-url;/v&cracklib-version;/cracklib-words-&cracklib-version;.bz2">
17 <!ENTITY crackdict-size "6.7 MB">
18 <!ENTITY crackdict-md5sum "f5f58abd1598ec34ab7f493209eb70f1">
19]>
20
21<sect1 id="cracklib" xreflabel="CrackLib-&cracklib-version;">
22 <?dbhtml filename="cracklib.html"?>
23
24
25 <title>CrackLib-&cracklib-version;</title>
26
27 <indexterm zone="cracklib">
28 <primary sortas="a-CrackLib">CrackLib</primary>
29 </indexterm>
30
31 <sect2 role="package">
32 <title>Introduction to CrackLib</title>
33
34 <para>
35 The <application>CrackLib</application> package contains a
36 library used to enforce strong passwords by comparing user selected
37 passwords to words in chosen word lists.
38 </para>
39
40 &lfs113_checked;
41
42 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
43 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
44 <listitem>
45 <para>
46 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&cracklib-download-http;"/>
47 </para>
48 </listitem>
49 <listitem>
50 <para>
51 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&cracklib-download-ftp;"/>
52 </para>
53 </listitem>
54 <listitem>
55 <para>
56 Download MD5 sum: &cracklib-md5sum;
57 </para>
58 </listitem>
59 <listitem>
60 <para>
61 Download size: &cracklib-size;
62 </para>
63 </listitem>
64 <listitem>
65 <para>
66 Estimated disk space required: &cracklib-buildsize;
67 </para>
68 </listitem>
69 <listitem>
70 <para>
71 Estimated build time: &cracklib-time;
72 </para>
73 </listitem>
74 </itemizedlist>
75
76 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
77 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
78 <listitem>
79 <para>
80 Recommended word list for English-speaking countries (size:
81 &crackdict-size;; md5sum: &crackdict-md5sum;):
82 <ulink url="&crackdict-download;"/>
83 </para>
84 </listitem>
85 </itemizedlist>
86
87 <para>
88 There are additional word lists available for download, e.g., from
89 <ulink url="https://wiki.skullsecurity.org/index.php/Passwords"/>.
90 <application>CrackLib</application> can utilize as many, or as few word
91 lists you choose to install.
92 </para>
93
94 <important>
95 <para>
96 Users tend to base their passwords on regular words of the spoken
97 language, and crackers know that. <application>CrackLib</application>
98 is intended to filter out such bad passwords at the source using a
99 dictionary created from word lists. To accomplish this, the word
100 list(s) for use with <application>CrackLib</application> must be an
101 exhaustive list of words and word-based keystroke combinations likely
102 to be chosen by users of the system as (guessable) passwords.
103 </para>
104
105 <para>
106 The default word list recommended above for downloading mostly
107 satisfies this role in English-speaking countries. In other situations,
108 it may be necessary to download (or even create) additional word lists.
109 </para>
110
111 <para>
112 Note that word lists suitable for spell-checking are not usable
113 as <application>CrackLib</application> word lists in countries with
114 non-Latin based alphabets, because of <quote>word-based keystroke
115 combinations</quote> that make bad passwords.
116 </para>
117 </important>
118
119 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
120 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/cracklib"/>
121 </para>
122 </sect2>
123
124 <sect2 role="installation">
125 <title>Installation of CrackLib</title>
126
127 <para>
128 Install <application>CrackLib</application> by running the following
129 commands:
130 </para>
131
132<screen><userinput>autoreconf -fiv &amp;&amp;
133
134PYTHON=python3 \
135./configure --prefix=/usr \
136 --disable-static \
137 --with-default-dict=/usr/lib/cracklib/pw_dict &amp;&amp;
138make</userinput></screen>
139
140 <para>
141 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
142 </para>
143
144<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
145
146 <para>
147 Issue the following commands as the
148 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user to install the
149 recommended word list and create the <application>CrackLib</application>
150 dictionary. Other word lists (text based, one word per line) can also be
151 used by simply installing them into
152 <filename class="directory">/usr/share/dict</filename> and adding them
153 to the <command>create-cracklib-dict</command> command.
154 </para>
155
156<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -m644 -D ../cracklib-words-&cracklib-version;.bz2 \
157 /usr/share/dict/cracklib-words.bz2 &amp;&amp;
158
159bunzip2 -v /usr/share/dict/cracklib-words.bz2 &amp;&amp;
160ln -v -sf cracklib-words /usr/share/dict/words &amp;&amp;
161echo $(hostname) >> /usr/share/dict/cracklib-extra-words &amp;&amp;
162install -v -m755 -d /usr/lib/cracklib &amp;&amp;
163
164create-cracklib-dict /usr/share/dict/cracklib-words \
165 /usr/share/dict/cracklib-extra-words</userinput></screen>
166
167 <para>
168 If desired, check the proper operation of the library as an
169 unprivileged user by issuing the following command:
170 </para>
171
172<screen remap="test"><userinput>make test</userinput></screen>
173
174 <important>
175 <para>
176 If you are installing <application>CrackLib</application> after
177 your LFS system has been completed and you have the
178 <application>Shadow</application> package installed, you must
179 reinstall <xref linkend="shadow"/> if you wish to provide strong
180 password support on your system. If you are now going to install the
181 <xref linkend="linux-pam"/> package, you may disregard this note as
182 <application>Shadow</application> will be reinstalled after the
183 <application>Linux-PAM</application> installation.
184 </para>
185 </important>
186
187 </sect2>
188
189 <sect2 role="commands">
190 <title>Command Explanations</title>
191
192 <para>
193 <command>autoreconf -fiv</command>: The configure script shipped with
194 the package is too old to get the right version string of Python
195 3.10 or later. This command regenerates it with a more recent version
196 of autotools, which fixes the issue.
197 </para>
198
199 <para>
200 <envar>PYTHON=python3</envar>: This forces the installation of
201 python bindings for Python 3, even if Python 2 is installed.
202 </para>
203 <!-- fixed by autoreconf
204 <para>
205 <envar>CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/include/python&python3-majorver;</envar>:
206 This works around an issue caused by incorrect usage of Python 3
207 headers.
208 </para>
209 -->
210 <para>
211 <parameter>--with-default-dict=/lib/cracklib/pw_dict</parameter>:
212 This parameter forces the installation of the
213 <application>CrackLib</application> dictionary to the
214 <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> hierarchy.
215 </para>
216
217 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
218 href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>
219
220 <para>
221 <command>install -v -m644 -D ...</command>: This command creates the
222 <filename class="directory">/usr/share/dict</filename> directory (if it
223 doesn't already exist) and installs the compressed word list there.
224 </para>
225
226 <para>
227 <command>ln -v -s cracklib-words /usr/share/dict/words</command>: The
228 word list is linked to <filename>/usr/share/dict/words</filename> as
229 historically, <filename>words</filename> is the primary word list in the
230 <filename class="directory">/usr/share/dict</filename> directory. Omit
231 this command if you already have a
232 <filename>/usr/share/dict/words</filename> file installed on your system.
233 </para>
234
235 <para>
236 <command>echo $(hostname) >>...</command>: The value of
237 <command>hostname</command> is echoed to a file called
238 <filename>cracklib-extra-words</filename>. This extra file is intended
239 to be a site specific list which includes easy to guess passwords such
240 as company or department names, user names, product names, computer
241 names, domain names, etc.
242 </para>
243
244 <para>
245 <command>create-cracklib-dict ...</command>: This command creates the
246 <application>CrackLib</application> dictionary from the word lists.
247 Modify the command to add any additional word lists you have installed.
248 </para>
249
250 </sect2>
251
252 <sect2 role="content">
253 <title>Contents</title>
254
255 <segmentedlist>
256 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
257 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
258 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
259
260 <seglistitem>
261 <seg>cracklib-check, cracklib-format, cracklib-packer,
262 cracklib-unpacker, cracklib-update, and create-cracklib-dict</seg>
263
264 <seg>libcrack.so and the _cracklib.so
265 (<application>Python</application> module)</seg>
266
267 <seg>/usr/lib/cracklib, /usr/share/dict and /usr/share/cracklib</seg>
268 </seglistitem>
269 </segmentedlist>
270
271 <variablelist>
272 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
273 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
274 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
275
276 <varlistentry id="cracklib-check">
277 <term><command>cracklib-check</command></term>
278 <listitem>
279 <para>
280 is used to determine if a password is strong
281 </para>
282 <indexterm zone="cracklib cracklib-check">
283 <primary sortas="b-cracklib-check">cracklib-check</primary>
284 </indexterm>
285 </listitem>
286 </varlistentry>
287
288 <varlistentry id="cracklib-format">
289 <term><command>cracklib-format</command></term>
290 <listitem>
291 <para>
292 is used to format text files (lowercases all words,
293 removes control characters and sorts the lists)
294 </para>
295 <indexterm zone="cracklib cracklib-format">
296 <primary sortas="b-cracklib-format">cracklib-format</primary>
297 </indexterm>
298 </listitem>
299 </varlistentry>
300
301 <varlistentry id="cracklib-packer">
302 <term><command>cracklib-packer</command></term>
303 <listitem>
304 <para>
305 creates a database with words read from standard input
306 </para>
307 <indexterm zone="cracklib cracklib-packer">
308 <primary sortas="b-cracklib-packer">cracklib-packer</primary>
309 </indexterm>
310 </listitem>
311 </varlistentry>
312
313 <varlistentry id="cracklib-unpacker">
314 <term><command>cracklib-unpacker</command></term>
315 <listitem>
316 <para>
317 displays on standard output the database specified
318 </para>
319 <indexterm zone="cracklib cracklib-packer">
320 <primary sortas="b-cracklib-packer">cracklib-packer</primary>
321 </indexterm>
322 </listitem>
323 </varlistentry>
324
325 <varlistentry id="create-cracklib-dict">
326 <term><command>create-cracklib-dict</command></term>
327 <listitem>
328 <para>
329 is used to create the <application>CrackLib</application>
330 dictionary from the given word list(s)
331 </para>
332 <indexterm zone="cracklib create-cracklib-dict">
333 <primary sortas="b-create-cracklib-dict">create-cracklib-dict</primary>
334 </indexterm>
335 </listitem>
336 </varlistentry>
337
338 <varlistentry id="libcrack">
339 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcrack.so</filename></term>
340 <listitem>
341 <para>
342 provides a fast dictionary lookup method for strong
343 password enforcement
344 </para>
345 <indexterm zone="cracklib libcrack">
346 <primary sortas="c-libcrack">libcrack.so</primary>
347 </indexterm>
348 </listitem>
349 </varlistentry>
350
351 </variablelist>
352
353 </sect2>
354
355</sect1>
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