NAME

       Data::Password - Perl extension for assessing password quality.

SYNOPSIS

               use Data::Password qw(IsBadPassword);

               print IsBadPassword("clearant");

               # Bad password - contains the word 'clear', only lowercase

               use Data::Password qw(:all);

               $DICTIONARY = 0;

               $GROUPS = 0;

               $SKIPCHAR = 0;

               print IsBadPassword("clearant");

DESCRIPTION

       This module checks potential passwords for crackability.  It checks that the password is in the
       appropriate length, that it has enough character groups, that it does not contain the same characters
       repeatedly or ascending or descending characters, or charcters close to each other in the keyboard.  It
       will also attempt to search the ispell word file for existance of whole words.  The module's policies can
       be modified by changing its variables.  (Check "VARIABLES").  For doing it, it is recommended to import
       the ':all' shortcut when requiring it:

       use Data::Password qw(:all);

FUNCTIONS

       1.  IsBadPassword(password)

           Returns undef if the password is ok, or a textual description of the fault if any.

       2.  IsBadPasswordForUNIX(user, password)

           Performs two additional checks: compares the password against the login name and the "comment" (ie,
           real name) found on the user file.

VARIABLES

       1.  $DICTIONARY

           Minimal length for dictionary words that are not allowed to appear in the password. Set to false to
           disable dictionary check.

       2.  $FOLLOWING

           Maximal length of characters in a row to allow if the same or following.  If $FOLLOWING_KEYBOARD is
           true (default), the module will also check for alphabetical keys following, according to the English
           keyboard layout.  Set $FOLLOWING to false to bypass this check.

       3.  $GROUPS

           Groups of characters are lowercase letters, uppercase letters, digits and the rest of the allowed
           characters. Set $GROUPS to the number of minimal character groups a password is required to have.
           Setting to false or to 1 will bypass the check.

       4.  $MINLEN

           $MAXLEN

           Minimum and maximum length of a password. Both can be set to false.

       5.  @DICTIONARIES

           Location where we are looking for dictionary files. You may want to set this variable if you are
           using not *NIX like operating system.

       6.  $SKIPCHAR

           Set $SKIPCHAR to 1 to skip checking for bad characters.

       7.  $BADCHARS

           Prohibit a specific character range. Excluded character range regualr experssion is expect. (You may
           use ^ to allow specific range) Default value is: '\0-\x1F\x7F' For ASCII only set value $BADCHARS =
           '^\x20-\x7F'; Force numbers and upper case only $BADCHARS = '^A-Z1-9';

FILES

       •   /usr/share/dict/web2

       •   /usr/share/dict/words

       •   /etc/passwd

SEE ALSO

       See Data::Password::BasicCheck if you need only basic password checking.  Other modules
       Data::Password::Common, Data::Password::Check, Data::Password::Meter, Data::Password::Entropy and
       String::Validator::Password

AUTHOR

       Ariel Brosh (RIP), January 2002.

       Oded S. Resnik, from April 2004.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2001 - 2014  Raz Information Systems Ltd.  <http://www.raz.co.il/>

       This package is distributed under the same terms as Perl itself, see the Artistic License on Perl's home
       page.