sudo and cracklib

[ujr@physik.phy.tu-dresden.de (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler)]

Hi,

 currently, sudo in potato uses cracklib and libpam.

 However, this is too much overhead (IMO) for private home systems
 and even (at least) some systems at work: the additional packages
 themselves, as well as the cron scripts of cracklib rebuilding
 dictionaries a.s.o., not accounted for the daily mail containing two
 identical 43something (well I always delete this mail immediately, so
 I don't remember the number exactly) - I think this bug is reported
 and will be fixed (sooner or later).

 I wonder, if sudo really needs to use cracklib, especially as
 libpam isn't used widely yet in login or similar programs.
 
 A solution might be to build two packages: sudo and sudo-cracklib.
 Or is this cracklib based sudo a move in a new, preferred direction?

 Thanks,

  Ulf