On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 02:39:25PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The upstream default of 6 has been around for at least 5 years, possibly as > long as a decade; and the code in question is inactive when pam_unix is > linked to cracklib, which I think most distributors other than Debian are > doing (we confine the use of libcracklib to the separate pam_cracklib > module, to keep cracklib out of base); so there probably isn't any modern > justification for this default at all. > Just curious, what is the rationale for wanting to keep cracklib out of base?
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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