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Re: sudo and cracklib



Jean Pierre LeJacq wrote:

> 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.

Much too late for slink, which is the topic under discussion.

> 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.
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