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update-cracklib(8)					    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	 <mar‐
       tin@piware.de> for the Debian GNU/Linux System (but may be used by oth‐
       ers).

Martin Pitt			 June 09, 2003		    update-cracklib(8)
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