[CentOS] exercising pam_cracklib from the command line

[James B. Byrne]

On Thu, November 20, 2014 04:44, Elias Persson wrote:
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> On 2014-11-17 20:57, James B. Byrne wrote:
>> CentOS-6.6
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>> Is there any command line program that determines and reports what
>> pam_cracklib.so returns for a given password; subject to variation
>> in the command line options and values provided?  For example,
>> assuming a cli driver program called cli_driver_pgm:
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> Googling for `"pam_cracklib" cli tool` got me a recommendation of
> `cracklib-check` via superuser [1]. Not sure if that does what you want,
> but it might be a start?
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I came up with cracklib-check too. It too uses FascistCheck like pam_cracklib
but none of the elements that are configurable for pam_cracklib are setable
for cracklib-check.  I have obtained the source for pam_cracklib so I will see
if I can create something on my own to yield what I wish. Sometime. Maybe. If
I live long enough.

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