cracklib-check - Man Page

cracklib-check [-h|--no-echo]

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

--no-echo

Don't echo the password which is ok to the terminal.

-h,  --help

Print help explaining the command line options.

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. When --no-echo is specified, prints only the result if password is ok.

FascistCheck(3)

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

cracklib-format(8), create-cracklib-dict(8).