pwscore(1) [centos man page]

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)

KPASSWDD(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					       KPASSWDD(8)

NAME

     kpasswdd -- Kerberos 5 password changing server

SYNOPSIS

     kpasswdd [--addresses=address] [--check-library=library] [--check-function=function] [-k kspec | --keytab=kspec] [-r realm | --realm=realm]
	      [-p string | --port=string] [--version] [--help]

DESCRIPTION

     kpasswdd serves request for password changes. It listens on UDP port 464 (service kpasswd) and processes requests when they arrive. It
     changes the database directly and should thus only run on the master KDC.

     Supported options:

     --addresses=address
	     For each till the argument is given, add the address to what kpasswdd should listen too.

     --check-library=library
	     If your system has support for dynamic loading of shared libraries, you can use an external function to check password quality. This
	     option specifies which library to load.

     --check-function=function
	     This is the function to call in the loaded library. The function should look like this:

	     const char * passwd_check(krb5_context context, krb5_principal principal, krb5_data *password)

	     context is an initialized context; principal is the one who tries to change passwords, and password is the new password. Note that
	     the password (in password->data) is not zero terminated.

     -k kspec, --keytab=kspec
	     Keytab to get authentication key from.

     -r realm, --realm=realm
	     Default realm.

     -p string, --port=string
	     Port to listen on (default service kpasswd - 464).

DIAGNOSTICS

     If an error occurs, the error message is returned to the user and/or logged to syslog.

BUGS

     The default password quality checks are too basic.

SEE ALSO

     kpasswd(1), kdc(8)

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