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crack_check(3) [php man page]

CRACK_CHECK(3)								 1							    CRACK_CHECK(3)

crack_check - Performs an obscure check with the given password

SYNOPSIS
bool crack_check (resource $dictionary, string $password) DESCRIPTION
bool crack_check NULL (string $password, string $username = "", string $gecos = "", resource $dictionary) Performs an obscure check with the given password on the specified dictionary. The alternative signature also takes into account the user- name and the GECOS information. Warning This function is EXPERIMENTAL. The behaviour of this function, its name, and surrounding documentation may change without notice in a future release of PHP. This function should be used at your own risk. PARAMETERS
o $dictionary - The crack lib dictionary. If not specified, the last opened dictionary is used. o $password - The password to be checked. o $username - The username of the account with the password. o $gecos - The GECOS information associated with the user account. RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE if $password is strong, or FALSE otherwise. CHANGELOG
+--------+---------------------------------------------------+ |Version | | | | | | | Description | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ | 0.3 | | | | | | | The $username, $gecos and $dictionary parameters | | | were added to the alternative signature. | | | | +--------+---------------------------------------------------+ PHP Documentation Group CRACK_CHECK(3)

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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 password is read from stdin. The tool uses the libpwquality library to perform configurable checks for minimum length, dictionary checking against cracklib dictionar- ies, 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> Red Hat, Inc. 10 Nov 2011 PWSCORE(1)
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