% | see if the password is in it. My question is, are there any pre-built lists of % | this nature? I am currently only using a spelling dictoinary, and would like % | somthing a little bigger. I made one really easily once with a tiny awk program that read files and remembered all the words (in a big table, with the old ``table[word]=1'' trick, then iterate the table and print it out). I probably used 'tr -cd' in front of it to get rid of non-alfa stuff. I fed it netnews -- especially hierachries with folklore, unix, rec.all, sex, etc. And it made a dictionary that cracked several hundred passwords (from a Major University /etc/passwd) in about 24 hours of SparcStation II time (i think ... this was six years ago). I remember finding the word 'creat' -- doubtless obtained from the unix wizards group -- and a whole family of machine-generated accounts whose password was 'pw'. I'm not sure these words exist in dictionaries, but they do in netnews and passwords. anyway -- it's fun to make your own. strick