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update-cracklib(8)                             System Manager's Manual                             update-cracklib(8)



NAME
       update-cracklib - Regenerate cracklib dictionary

SYNOPSIS
       update-cracklib


DESCRIPTION
       update-cracklib  builds  a  compressed and accumulated version of wordlists stored in the directories given in
       cracklib's configuration file /etc/cracklib/cracklib.conf. Programs using cracklib2 need this database  to  be
       of any use.

       By default this script is called by cron every day.


RESULT
       update-cracklib prints out two numbers: the number of words read from the ASCII dictionaries and the number of
       words eventually written into the cracklib database; if no error occurred, these should be equal.

       0 is returned on success, otherwise an error message is printed to standard error and -1 is returned.


FILES
       /etc/cracklib/cracklib.conf
              shell script that sets cracklib_dictpath_src which must be a space separated list of source  dictionary
              files.


SEE ALSO
       cracklib(3), crack_mkdict(8)


AUTHOR
       This  program  and  manual  page was written by Martin Pitt <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux System
       (but may be used by others).




Martin Pitt                                         June 09, 2003                                  update-cracklib(8)