cracklib-check(8)

💅 cracklib-check — the manual page, but make it cute

okay bestie, gather round, because we're reading the cracklib-check(8) page from the System Manager's Manual and honestly? it's short, it's sweet, and it will not let you pick a bad password. periodt.

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✨ NAME ✨

cracklib-check — check passwords using libcrack2 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

cracklib-check [-h|--no-echo]

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so here's the vibe: cracklib-check takes a whole list of passwords from stdin — yes, it's reading your input, bestie, it's a listener — and then it checks every single one of them through libcrack2's FascistCheck(3) sub routine. 🕵️‍♀️✨

that's it. that's the whole job. it's giving quality control. it's giving "not on my watch." 👑

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💖 OPTIONS 💖

• --no-echo — don't echo the password that's ok back to the terminal. 🤫 basically: keep it quiet, keep it mysterious, keep it off the screen.
• -h, --help — print help explaining the command line options. 🫶 the "girl help" option, but it actually helps.

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🌈 RESULT 🌈

cracklib-check prints each checked password and the matching result from FascistCheck(3) straight to stdout. the password and the result are separated by a colon (:), like a little duo. 💫

when --no-echo is specified, it prints only the result if the password is ok. no password reveal, no spoilers. 🙈

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• FascistCheck(3)

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

this man page was written by Jan Dittberner <jandd@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux System (but may be used by others). iconic of him honestly 💜

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lowkey a whole queen for documenting this. the way he did that for Debian and said "but like, you can use it too" — sharing is caring fr fr.

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mwah 💋 that's the page. written by Jan Dittberner, dated Sat Jun 21 22:44:33 CEST 2008, living rent-free in the System Manager's Manual as cracklib-check(8). slay, stay safe, and never let your password be password123. 🦋✨