PWSCORE(1)PWSCORE(1)NAMEpwscore - simple configurable tool for checking quality of a password
SYNOPSISpwscore [user]
DESCRIPTIONpwscore is a simple tool for checking quality of a password. The pass‐
word is read from stdin.
The tool uses the libpwquality library to perform configurable checks
for minimum length, dictionary checking against cracklib dictionaries,
and other checks.
It either reports an error if the password fails any of the checks, or
it prints out the password quality score as an integer value between 0
and 100.
The password quality score is relative to the minlen setting in the
configuration file. But in general values below 50 can be treated as
moderate quality and above it fairly strong quality. Any password that
passes the quality checks (especially the mandatory cracklib check)
should withstand dictionary attacks and scores above 50 with the
default minlen setting even fast brute force attacks.
OPTIONS
The first and only optional argument is the user name that is used to
check the similarity of the password to the username.
FILES
/etc/security/pwquality.conf - The configuration file for the libp‐
wquality library.
RETURN CODESpwscore returns 0 on success, non zero on error.
SEE ALSOpwscore(1), pwquality.conf(5), pam_pwquality(8)AUTHORS
Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>
Red Hat, Inc. 10 Nov 2011 PWSCORE(1)
