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Fedora Core 3: UBUNTU-2005-678 High: Words Package Security Update

fedora
Calendar Grey May 4, 2005
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent upgrade for Fedora Core 3's lexicon package boosts word lookup capabilities and strengthens password verification processes.
Updated package.

Summary

The words file is a dictionary of English words for the

/usr/share/dict directory. Some programs use this database of

words to check spelling. Password checkers use it to look for bad

passwords.

- sort with --dictionary-order

- remove words with possessives ('s)

6558a61182ecf4be2a5f4599cac52c49 SRPMS/words-3.0-2.3.src.rpm

5f45a8552d453d159309f3f96653bfc8 x86_64/words-3.0-2.3.noarch.rpm

5f45a8552d453d159309f3f96653bfc8 i386/words-3.0-2.3.noarch.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

fedora-announce-list@redhat.com

Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Name: words
Version: 3.0
Release: 2.3
Summary: A dictionary of English words for the /usr/share/dict directory.

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