Cracklib: Alternate word lists

[LFS-User@…]

See the thread started at ​http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2005-August/010763.html for information about adding alternate word lists to the Cracklib instructions.

See the whole thread to view the suggested text provided by Alex.

I'm going to work on this right now, hopefully we can get it into the book for the pre-2 release. However, because the instructions don't change, and there is really nothing going to be added except for text and some URL's, it could simply be merged into the 6.1 branch after pre-2 is released.

[LFS-User@…]

Added additional information to the CrackLib instructions. Waiting on Alex to see if there is anything else which can make it better.

[alexander@…]

During my attempts to download any wordlist from ​http://www.cotse.com/tools/wordlists.htm the result was a redirection to ​http://www.cotse.net/home.html (maybe a temporary problem at their end)

If they don't fix it, please either provide a different link to a collection of wordlists, or don't provide this link at all.

[LFS-User@…]

5 minutes after Alex reported the link to be not working, I tried it and it works just fine.

Please try other browsers, or perhaps the location you are at is behind a firewall of some sort to cause the redirection?

[alexander@…]

It works now.

[alexander@…]

Found the reason.

wget ​http://www.cotse.com/wordlists/us-count -> redirect

wget --header "Referer: ​http://www.cotse.com/tools/wordlists.htm" \

​http://www.cotse.com/wordlists/us-count -> works

[LFS-User@…]

Added additional text (most provided by Alex) to the CrackLib instructions. Off-line conversation with Alex has determined that the bug is now ready to be closed.

However, these changes should be merged into 6.1 so leaving the bug open and assigning to Bruce. Please close it have the changes have been merged.

[bdubbs@…]

Added to 6.1

[(none)]

Milestone 6.1 deleted