How To Install cracklib-dicts on CentOS 8

cracklib-dicts is The standard CrackLib dictionaries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cracklib-dicts on CentOS 8.

What is cracklib-dicts

The cracklib-dicts package includes the CrackLib dictionaries. CrackLib will need to use the dictionary appropriate to your system, which is normally put in /usr/share/dict/words. Cracklib-dicts also contains the utilities necessary for the creation of new dictionaries. If you are installing CrackLib, you should also install cracklib-dicts.

We can use yum or dnf to install cracklib-dicts on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cracklib-dicts.

Install cracklib-dicts on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cracklib-dicts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cracklib-dicts

Install cracklib-dicts on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cracklib-dicts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cracklib-dicts

How To Uninstall cracklib-dicts on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the cracklib-dicts package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cracklib-dicts

cracklib-dicts Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib64/cracklib_dict.hwm
/usr/lib64/cracklib_dict.pwd
/usr/lib64/cracklib_dict.pwi
/usr/sbin/mkdict
/usr/sbin/packer
/usr/share/cracklib/cracklib-small.hwm
/usr/share/cracklib/cracklib-small.pwd
/usr/share/cracklib/cracklib-small.pwi
/usr/share/cracklib/pw_dict.hwm
/usr/share/cracklib/pw_dict.pwd
/usr/share/cracklib/pw_dict.pwi

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cracklib-dicts on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.