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).
