Man page - update-cracklib(8)

Packages contains this manual

Package:  cracklib-runtime
apt-get install cracklib-runtime

Manuals in package:
• cracklib-unpacker(8)
• create-cracklib-dict(8)
• cracklib-check(8)
• update-cracklib(8)
• cracklib-packer(8)
• cracklib-format(8)
Documentations in package:
• cracklib-runtime

Manual

update-cracklib

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RESULT
FILES
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

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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).

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