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  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 09, 2003                               update-cracklib(8)