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Package: dictionaries-common
Version: 0.25.12
I wanted enhanced security and so commented out the standard line in
/etc/pam.d/common-password:
password required pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5
and uncommented the last two lines:
password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=7 difok=3
password required pam_unix.so use_authtok nullok md5
this requires installation of libpam-cracklib, which recommends
(actually it may require but I'm not sure) a wordlist like wamerican.
so i ran:
# apt-get install libpam-cracklib wamerican-large
but the installation fails due to dependency issues. it looks as though
dictionaries-common might be causing this based on the error message:
"dpkg: error processing dictionaries-common (--configure)
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
...
...
wcatalan depends on dictionaries-common...
Package dictionaries-common is not configured yet
by the way, not sure why it always wants to use wcatalan, even when an
alternate wordlist like wamerican-large is specifically chosed. it also
seems like a bizarre default wordlist to use, given the language of the
OS.
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On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 10:24:50AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Can you please send me the full typescript? I have tried to reproduce the
> > problem (although with no changes in /etc/pam.d/common-password, I do not
> > expect the problem be there) and I did not get that
> >
> > "dpkg: error processing dictionaries-common (--configure)
> >
> > Please try
> >
> > # dpkg-reconfigure dictionaries-common
> >
> > or reinstalling doctionaries-common from scratch and see if that works.
> > If so, there was some temporary problem in your system. If not, please send
> > the full typescript to the bug address.
> >
>
> seagull:~# dpkg -P libpam-cracklib wamerican-large dictionaries-common
> (Reading database ... 31690 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing libpam-cracklib ...
> Removing wamerican-large ...
> Purging configuration files for wamerican-large ...
> Removing dictionaries-common ...
> Purging configuration files for dictionaries-common ...
>
> seagull:~# apt-get install libpam-cracklib wamerican-large
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> dictionaries-common wcatalan
> Suggested packages:
> ispell emacsen-common jed-extra
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> dictionaries-common libpam-cracklib wamerican-large wcatalan
> 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
...
> Setting up dictionaries-common (0.25.12) ...
> Updating OpenOffice.org's dictionary list... done.
>
> Setting up wcatalan (0.4-3) ...
...
> so I can't reproduce what happened earlier.
>
> maybe it was in some weird state for some reason.
I guess so.
Thanks for the feedback, I am closing this bug report.
Regarding apt behaving strangely depending on package order, I have
found this bug reports,
#122304: Order is significant when specifying packages to install
#196021: Order of package names in argument list shouldn't be relevant
I did not closely look at them, and still do not explain why wcatalan is
pulled.
--
Agustin
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