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
       <martin@piware.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux System (but may be used by
       others).


Martin Pitt                      June 9, 2003               update-cracklib(8)