Section 8 · System administration

cracklib-check.8

Package: cracklib

cracklib−check

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RESULT
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

NAME

cracklib−check − Check passwords using libcrack2

SYNOPSIS

cracklib−check

DESCRIPTION

cracklib−check takes a list of passwords from stdin and checks them via libcrack2’s FascistCheck(3) sub routine.

RESULT

cracklib−check prints each checked password and the corresponding result of FascistCheck(3) to stdout. The password and the result are separated by a colon.

AUTHOR

This man page was written by Jan Dittberner <jandd@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux System (but may be used by others).