<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=920071009-10052006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=920071009-10052006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=920071009-10052006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyone who knows how to add new words to the cracklib dictionary and/or how to build a completely new cracklib dictionary on RHEL3 and RHEL4 ?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=920071009-10052006><FONT face=Arial size=2>I searched the redhat knowledge base but it only refers to a broken URL (<A href="http://www.crypticide.org/users/alecm/">http://www.crypticide.org/users/alecm/</A>) how words are added to the dictionary.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=920071009-10052006><FONT face=Arial size=2>The cracklib-dicts rpm installs 2 utilities in /usr/sbin, mkdict and packer, however, no information what so ever how they should be used (if they are the tools I'm looking for).</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=920071009-10052006><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the early days (RedHat 5.0 ....), RedHat supplied a utility in the cracklib-dics rpm called create-cracklib-dict, however, this utility seems to have been removed.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=920071009-10052006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=920071009-10052006><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=920071009-10052006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=920071009-10052006><FONT face=Arial size=2>/Johan</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=920071009-10052006></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=920071009-10052006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=920071009-10052006><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV></BODY></HTML>