forking PAM to remove cracklib dependency

Chris Ball cjb at laptop.org
Fri Jul 25 12:45:42 EDT 2008


Hi,

   > Hi, pam currently depends on cracklib which brings in an 8.5mb
   > dictionary.  It's quite easy to remove this dependency. Any
   > objections to me requesting a pam OLPC-3 branch and applying the
   > attached changes on the F-9 package?

Looks good.  Do you think you can get it upstream, too?

In cases like these, I wonder whether just patching Pilgrim to remove
the cracklib file after installation is a good idea -- it lets us avoid
the package fork.  Getting the patch accepted upstream would be best of
all, though.

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>



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