Manual: update-cracklib

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 crack‐
       lib's configuration file /etc/cracklib/cracklib.conf. Programs using cracklib2 need this database to be of any use.

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  for the Debian GNU/Linux System (but may
       be used by others).

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