PWSCORE(1) General Commands Manual 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 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 CODES
       pwscore returns 0 on success, non zero on error.


SEE ALSO
       pwscore(1), pwquality.conf(5), pampwquality(8)


AUTHORS
       Tomas Mraz 



Red Hat, Inc.                     10 Nov 2011                       PWSCORE(1)