Manual:createCommonPasswordCdb.php

MediaWiki file: createCommonPasswordCdb.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.35.1 • 1.31.12
Classes:	GenerateCommonPassword

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.27

Details

createCommonPasswordCdb.php file creates a common password CDB database. It takes a file like https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/blob/master/Passwords/rockyou.txt?raw=true as an example.

Options

As of 9cd8d3e2d7ef:

Generate CDB file of common passwords

Usage: php createCommonPasswordCdb.php [--conf|--dbgroupdefault|--dbpass|--dbuser|--globals|--help|--limit|--memory-limit|--mwdebug|--profiler|--quiet|--server|--wiki] <inputfile> <output>

Generic maintenance parameters:
    --help (-h): Display this help message
    --quiet (-q): Whether to suppress non-error output
    --conf: Location of LocalSettings.php, if not default
    --wiki: For specifying the wiki ID
    --globals: Output globals at the end of processing for debugging
    --memory-limit: Set a specific memory limit for the script, "max"
        for no limit or "default" to avoid changing it
    --server: The protocol and server name to use in URLs, e.g.
        https://en.wikipedia.org. This is sometimes necessary because server name
        detection may fail in command line scripts.
    --profiler: Profiler output format (usually "text")
    --mwdebug: Enable built-in MediaWiki development settings

Script dependant parameters:
    --dbuser: The DB user to use for this script
    --dbpass: The password to use for this script
    --dbgroupdefault: The default DB group to use.

Script specific parameters:
    --limit (-l): Max number of passwords to write

Arguments:
    <inputfile>: List of passwords (one per line) to use or - for stdin
    <output>: Location to write CDB file to (Try
        /$SERVERPATH/includes/password/commonpasswords.cdb)