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.

RESULT
       update-cracklib prints out two numbers: the number of words read from the ASCII dictionaries and the number of words even‐
       tually 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 <martin@piware.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux  System  (but  may  be
       used by others).

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