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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
