Re: sudo and cracklib
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Chris Waters wrote:
> Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
>
> > But this doesn't change the situation. If sudo depends on libpam,
> > it depends implicitly on cracklib, and I need to install cracklib
> > in order to configure (and use?) sudo. Or do I miss something?
>
> No, and the real problem is that libpam should not depend on cracklib.
> Among other things, this means that everyone using a standard hamm
> "workstation" install will suddenly get cracklib loaded when they
> upgrade to slink, because ppp-pam depends (indirectly) on cracklib.
>
> I thought that the new pam maintainer was going to fix this problem, but
> nothing seems to have happened yet. I truly hope that this gets fixed
> before slink gets released. If not, then I truly hope that the cracklib
> daily mail thing gets cured before slink gets released. (I know how to
> fix it for myself, but we shouldn't subject every Debian user to daily
> mail from cron if we can avoid it, IMO.)
Ack ... not enough time in a day! I do plan on devoting a day to
cracklib and will have a new upload the end of this week.
I'm not sure why you should be concerned about having cracklib.
There's no daemon, the overhead is minimal when using, and the cron
process is quick.
--
Jean Pierre
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