[CentOS] exercising pam_cracklib from the command line

Mon Nov 17 19:57:33 UTC 2014
James B. Byrne <byrnejb at harte-lyne.ca>

CentOS-6.6

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:

cli_driver_pgm   pam_cracklib.so difok=8 minlen=14 dcredit=3 ucredit=3
lcredit=3 ocredit=3 minclass=2 maxrepeat=3 maxsequence=3 reject_username
gecoscheck  -- somepassword

-> pam_cracklib calculated minlen value for somepassword


My Google-fu appears to have deserted me.

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