update-cracklib
Regenerate cracklib dictionary
Synopsis
update-cracklib
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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.
files
/etc/cracklib/cracklib.conf
shell script that sets cracklib_dictpath_src which must be
a space separated list of source dictionary files.
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.
see also
cracklib,
crack_mkdict
author
This program
and manual page was written by Martin Pitt
<martin[:at:]piware[:dot:]de> for the Debian GNU/Linux System
(but may be used by others).