pw_dict

[Richard Pyne]

On 28 Oct 2005 at 22:21, Auke Kok wrote:

> Florin Braescu wrote:
> 
> >Pe data de Sîm 29 Oct 2005 07:44, Richard Pyne a scris:
> >  
> >
> >>On 29 Oct 2005 at 7:34, Florin Braescu wrote:
> >>Doesn't 'lunar update' take care of that? I have run both a
> >>'lunar update' and then a 'lunar rebuild' in the last 8 hours
> >>on the machine n question.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >  That's right. However it's not working right on your machine
> >  ic. Try to lrm 
> >-nosustain cracklib, if there are some related files left in the
> >/usr/share/dict dir remove them and do a lin cracklib. On my
> >machine, if i lin cracklib the files are placed in
> >/lib/cracklib. Btw, remove the symlink from /usr/share/dict to
> >/lib/cracklib aswell, first of all.
> >  
> >
> 
> no no no people,
> 
> we established a long time ago already that /etc/login.defs
> points to the location where the cracklib dictionaries are, and,
> that on older systems, this file is not being upgraded on shadow
> upgrades because the older lunar iso's installed a
> /etc/login.defs which was not added to the list of files that the
> shadow module installed - alienated.
> 
> This means that when you upgrade both shadow and cracklib from an
> older system (pre-1.5.0) you will get this problem.
> 
> Remove /etc/login.defs and reinstall cracklib and shadow is the
> proper solution.
> 
> Auke

That is the answer I needed. Nice and clean. This did the trick.

Thanks.

--Richard