Is there an easy way to check a password using cracklib via the command line? Pr...

Udo · on Dec 5, 2013

It doesn't come with OS X, but I suppose there should be a port available somewhere. Otherwise, Virtualbox and some minimal distro are probably your best bet.

On Linux command line, you just feed the password to it:

  echo "password" | cracklib-check

peferron · on Dec 5, 2013

  brew install cracklib cracklib-words

  echo "lol" | cracklib-check