Re: sudo and cracklib
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
> Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure why you should be concerned about having cracklib.
>
> I'm not *personally* concerned, but I think that having everyone who
> upgrades from hamm to slink suddenly start getting cryptic daily emails
> from cron is a bad idea. Fortunately, there has been a new upload of
> pam to slink, so the problem is already solved.
>
> "Minimal" overhead is a relative thing, however; for a small server
> which can't even *hope* to run X, for example, the overhead of a
> cracklib dependency could be quite noticable.
We're talking a function call here. Any server can handle this. The
cron process can be run at night to regenerate the dictionary.
--
Jean Pierre
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