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Re: libpam, cracklib, and slink (was Re: Release-critical...)



On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Ben Collins wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 20, 1999 at 09:46:21AM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
> > > I think that there should be a release critical bug here, but I think it
> > > should be #30862:  libpam0g depends on cracklib2.
> >
> > Yup. I've looked at it again, and the dependency is superflous. (I modified
> > PAM to link it's .so's to all the libraries they need, and -lcracklib
> > slipped in there because I originally looked at enabling cracklib support).
> >
> > I'm now preparing an upload that'll mark PAM as orphaned.
> 
> Ack! We need pam to be maintained if we want to enable it's use in
> potato. I'll take it, if no one intends on doing so themselves.

Another Ack!  I'd like to see cracklib support enabled in PAM.  Can we
coordinate uploads here?  I plan on a new upload of cracklib this
weekend which will close all existing bug reports.

-- 
Jean Pierre



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