multicheckpw(8)

NAME
multicheckpw - run multiple checkpasswords

SYNOPSIS
multicheckpw N checkprog1 checkprog2 ... checkprogN subprogram [args]

DESCRIPTION
Use this utility to check user,pass,greet pairs against multiple DjB checkpassword-style programs. See http://cr.yp.to/checkpwd.html for a description of how checkpassword works. multicheckpw assumes that when the child's exit code is 0, then the password was accepted. multicheckpw takes n + 1 arguments, where n is the number of checkpassword programs which should be called.

PROCESS-STATE CHANGES
multicheckpw doesn't make any process state changes, but the checkpassword style programs it runs may change something ...

RETURN VALUES
0    password was okay
1    password failure
2    misuse
111    temporary failure

SEE ALSO
checkqpasswd(8), checkpasswd(8), cmd5checkpw(8), qpasswd(5)

VERSION
This documentation describes multicheckpw version 0.5 of the qpasswd tools.

AUTHOR
Tino Reichardt <milky-qpasswd@mcmilk.de>