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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Arjan Bouter <abouter AT sourcemage.org>:
> On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:27:16 -0800
> Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com> wrote:
>
> > Just thought id share that theres two cracklib spells in the devel
> > grimoire (as well as several other spells)
> >
> > cracklib /var/lib/sorcery/codex/devel/libs
> > cracklib /var/lib/sorcery/codex/devel/security-libs
>
> That's what happens when devs don't work from an up-to-date local p4 tree.
> That spell has been moved to security-libs a number of times...
> In the end i just gave up.
> I'm also pretty sure there are more spells which are in a couple of places 
> in
> the grimoire. linux-pam is another one which keeps popping up in different
> places. This will continue to happen untill everyone syncs their p4 tree
> before
> editing it.
>
> When linux-pam started to refuse to build without cracklib i added the
> cracklib
> spell. It might be able to be optional, when someone edits the Makefile.
> at the time it seemed easier to add the cracklib spell.
>
> The cracklib spell broke in less than a week due to them wanting --referer
> set
> The spell in security-libs was updated to download it using --referer.
>
> If anyone knows another wordlist which we could use in the spell that might
> be
> a better solution. Because they obviously don't want people downloading it
> without visiting their website.

Perhaps /usr/share/dict/words from miscfiles?

-sandalle

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