Fedora 17 Update: libpwquality-1.1.1-1.fc17

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-8576
2012-05-29 15:46:34
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Name        : libpwquality
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 1.1.1
Release     : 1.fc17
URL         : http://libpwquality.fedorahosted.org/
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.

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Update Information:

Update with minor enhancements and also minor memory leak fix in the python bindings.

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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jun 13 2012 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.1.1-1
- use rpm built-in filtering of provides (rhbz#830153)
- remove strain debug fprintf() (rhbz#831567)
* Thu May 24 2012 Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> 1.1.0-1
- fix leak when throwing PWQError exception
- added pkgconfig file
- call the simplicity checks before the cracklib check
- add enforce_for_root option to the PAM module
- updated translations from Transifex
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #825877 - Update to ship pwquality.pc file
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825877
  [ 2 ] Bug #794989 - Bugs found in libpwquality-1.0.0-2.fc17 using gcc-with-cpychecker static analyzer
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=794989
  [ 3 ] Bug #830153 - libpwquality.i686 file conflicts with libpwquality.x86_64
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=830153
  [ 4 ] Bug #831567 - /bin/passwd clutters the screen with "Value: '8'Value: '4'Value: '3'Val..."
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831567
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
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