cracklib-check (8) Linux Manual Page

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.

See Also

FascistCheck(3)

Author

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