libpam-cracklib cannot find cracklib_dict.pwd after install
Bug #278743 reported by
Gabriel Bauman
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cracklib2 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10
libpam-cracklib:
Installed: 1.0.1-4ubuntu4
Candidate: 1.0.1-4ubuntu4
Version table:
*** 1.0.1-4ubuntu4 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
Immediately after installing libpam-cracklib:
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root@host# su user
user@host:
Changing password for user.
(current) UNIX password:
New UNIX password:
/var/cache/
PWOpen: No such file or directory
user@host:
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At this point the new password was not set for 'user'.
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I saw this problem once, but afterwards was not able to reproduce it. It's a bug in cracklib2 rather than in pam; libpam-cracklib depends on cracklib-runtime, which should take care of setting this all up at install time. Hopefully someone who knows more about the cracklib package can debug this.