PW-INSPECTOR(1)

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✨ pw-inspector — the password-list glow-up tool ✨

okay bestie, so this is the pw-inspector(1) manual page, living in the General Commands Manual section. she's a little Debian legend and she's here to help you filter passwords. let's get into it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

pw-inspector — A tool to reduce the password list

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

pw-inspector [-i FILE] [-o FILE] [-m MINLEN] [-M MAXLEN] [-c MINSETS] -l
-u -n -p -s

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the vibe: PW-Inspector reads passwords in and prints those which meet the requirements. that's it, that's the whole job. she's a bouncer at the password club 🫶

the return code is literally the number of valid passwords found, and it's 0 if none was found. no cap.

how you use her depends on your whole situation:

  • for security — check passwords, and if 0 is returned, reject that password choice. periodt.
  • for hacking — trim your dictionary file down to the pw requirements of the target. iconic behaviour, honestly.
⚠️ heads up bestie: usage only allowed for legal purposes. that's the rule, don't be weird about it 🙈

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -i FILE — the file to read passwords from (default: stdin). she's nosey like that 👀
  • -o FILE — the file to write valid passwords to (default: stdout). the good ones get to go here 💖
  • -m MINLEN — minimum length of a valid password. shorties need not apply.
  • -M MAXLEN — maximum length of a valid password. no novels either, babes.
  • -c MINSETS — the minimum number of sets required (default: all given). so if you don't say anything, she wants every set you asked for, and that's that ✨
  • -h, --help — Show summary of options. your girl's got your back 🫶

🌈 SETS 🌈

these are the little character families you can demand. mix and match, it's giving ✨build-a-password✨

  • -l — lowcase characters (a,b,c,d, etc.)
  • -u — upcase characters (A,B,C,D, etc.)
  • -n — numbers (1,2,3,4, etc.)
  • -p — printable characters (which are not -l/-n/-n, e.g. $,!,/,(,*, etc.)
  • -s — special characters - all others not withint the sets above

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

hydra(1), xhydra(1).

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

hydra was written by van Hauser / THC <vh@thc.org> and co-maintained by David Maciejak <david.maciejak@gmail.com>.

This manual page was written by Daniel Echeverry <epsilon77@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

and that's the whole page, bestie 🦋 ty for reading, go filter some passwords, stay legal, stay iconic 💜

source/version: PW-INSPECTOR(1) · dated: 24/05/2012 — a classic, honestly. she ate and left no crumbs 🎀

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