Re: Lost root password!!
the last reply for that bug (quoted below) seems to have a solution, although i
haven't tried it myself. it would seem you just need to install one
of the wordlist packages (ie wenglish) and then rerun the
/etc/cron.daily/cracklib script. the wordlist should probably be a
dependency for libpam-cracklib?
> I see you could use some feedback. Ran into the same problem. Just
> installing libpam-cracklib and uncommenting is not enough. BTW, I'm
> running woody.
>
> When you switch to using cracklib for the password module type, you
> need to make sure you have a dictionary that it can check against.
> You'll need to install one _and_ seed cracklib with it. If you don't,
> you can not change your password and get
>
> passwd: Critical error - immediate abort
>
> Dictionaries are provided by any package that provides the virtual
> "wordlist" package. Hence, I think libpam-cracklib should depend on
> it (or at least recommend it).
>
> Seeding the cracklib dictionary can be achieved by running the
> /etc/cron.daily/cracklib script.
>
> So to get this working out of the box, libpam-cracklib needs to pull
> in a wordlist package, make sure cracklib-runtime is installed (and
> configured?) and run that cron script in its postinst.
>
> BTW, the cron script happily runs *without* a wordlist package
> installed.
>
> I guess all those folks not able to reproduce this had a wordlist
> installed and the cron job ran before they changed to using cracklib
> with PAM and tried it out.
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