Is Cracklib really required in the OS image?

[C. Scott Ananian]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
> On 18 Jul 2008, at 18:24, Michael Stone wrote:
>> We'd like to kill it but haven't gotten to it yet. Please help if you
>> can! (Talk to dgilmore, dsd, and cscott for advice).
>
> Well other than weakly noting that the build logs seem to suggest PAM
> is currently pulling in Cracklib; and that some googling suggest that
> Cracklib is only an optional component of PAM; I might go as far as
> removing Crack lib from my B4 XO and see if it fries anything else in
> an obvious way (and post the results here).

http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7353
http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5259

Help appreciated!
 --scott

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