An essential utility, passgen was written in response to the lack of a useful password generator, which should be standard issue for any multi-user machine. passgen generates passwords which comply to security stds recommended by CERT, NIST and others.
ppInspect become pqChecker (just change the name)
OpenLDAP directory with the PPolicy overlay can manage a passwords policy, especially the password quality. Making this feature pass through adding a plug-in ( dynamic shared library) who execute the essential of job. pqChecker is this plug-in. Settings of passwords quality are:
. Number of required uppercase characters.
. Number of required lowercase characters.
. Number of required special characters.
. Number of required digits.
. Forbidden characters list.