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Re: sudo and cracklib



At 21:52 +0100 1999-02-10, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
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?

The problem is dpkg-shlibdeps, since it parses ldd output, it ends up pulling in indirect dependencies too (cracklib is a dependency of libpam, not sudo). The correct solution is to use the output of objdump --private-headers, this gets only direct dependencies (there is an objdump-based dpkg-shlibdeps in the debian-dpkg list archives).
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