pwscore(1)

NAME

   pwscore - simple configurable tool for checking quality of a password

SYNOPSIS

   pwscore [user]

DESCRIPTION

   pwscore is a simple tool for checking quality of a password. The
   password 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
   libpwquality library.

RETURN CODES

   pwscore returns 0 on success, non zero on error.

SEE ALSO

   pwscore(1), pwquality.conf(5), pam_pwquality(8)

AUTHORS

   Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>

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