Password-checking program for webmin

Posted by Hubert Kario on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Hubert Kario
Published on 2012-03-28T16:47:10Z Indexed on 2012/03/28 17:33 UTC
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I'm trying to perform password quality checks using pwqcheck (part of passwdq) in webmin.

Unfortunately when I set in "Users and Groups" module settings the "External password-checking program" to the same value that works for samba check password script:

/usr/bin/pwqcheck -1

I get following error when I try to create a user (named test-user):

Failed to save user : pwqcheck: Error parsing parameter "test-user": Invalid parameter

So, How do I configure Webmin together with pwqcheck?

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