update-cracklib - Regenerate cracklib dictionary
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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.
Files
/etc/cracklib/cracklib.conf
shell script that sets cracklib_dictpath_src which must be a space separated list of source
dictionary files.
Name
update-cracklib - Regenerate cracklib dictionary
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(3), crack_mkdict(8)
Synopsis
update-cracklib
