$Id: README,v 1.3 2002/06/19 06:26:19 ianmacd Exp $ WHAT IS IT? ----------- Ruby/Password comprises a set of useful methods for creating, verifying and manipulating passwords. It includes an interface to CrackLib, a library commonly used for checking password strength. From the CrackLib README: CrackLib makes literally hundreds of tests to determine whether you've chosen a bad password. * It tries to generate words from your username and gecos entry to tries to match them against what you've chosen. * It checks for simplistic patterns. * It then tries to reverse-engineer your password into a dictionary word, and searches for it in your dictionary. - after all that, it's PROBABLY a safe(-ish) password. 8-) The target audience for this library is system administrators who need to write Ruby programs that prompt for, generate, verify and encrypt passwords. INSTALLATION ------------ Please see the INSTALL file for details of how to install Ruby/Password. USAGE ----- Please see the man page or HTML documentation for details of how to use Ruby/Password. LICENCE ------- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. Please see the file COPYING for the terms of the licence.