debian man page for update-cracklib

Query: update-cracklib

OS: debian

Section: 8

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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 09, 2003 update-cracklib(8)
Related Man Pages
afppasswd(1) - redhat
cracklib-format(8) - centos
cracklib-packer(8) - centos
update-cracklib(8) - centos
cracklib-unpacker(8) - debian
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