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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.

       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).