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cracklib2 package

Error on trying to change password

Bug #1909596 reported by schollsky on 2020-12-29

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	cracklib2 (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Package shadow is suggested, but I'm unsure.

I tried this after fresh installation (dual boot):

$ passwd
Changing password for stefan.
Current password:
New password:
/var/cache/cracklib/cracklib_dict.pwd.gz: No such file or directory
BAD PASSWORD: The password fails the dictionary check - error loading dictionary
New password:

Changing to new password is not possible.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: passwd 1:4.8.1-1ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-33.36-generic 5.8.17
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-33-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: MATE
Date: Tue Dec 29 18:41:26 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-12-29 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-MATE 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022)
SourcePackage: shadow
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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schollsky (schollsky) wrote on 2020-12-29:

Dependencies.txt Edit (1.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
LoginDefs.txt Edit (10.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (325 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Steve Beattie (sbeattie) on 2021-02-09

affects:

ubuntu → cracklib2 (Ubuntu)

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Steve Beattie (sbeattie) wrote on 2021-02-09:

Hi, it seems that for some reason cracklib has failed to generate /var/cache/cracklib/cracklib_dict.pwd (or /var/cache/cracklib/cracklib_dict.pwd.gz).

There is a daily cronjob that is supposed to regenerate /var/cache/cracklib/cracklib_dict.pwd if the dictionaries it used as input are newer. I'm not sure why it's not generating your file correctly; you can manually run it via `sudo sh -xe /usr/sbin/update-cracklib` to see what's going wrong.

Also, for diagnostic purposes without needed to attempt to change the passwd, you can do `echo PASSWD | cracklib-check` to see if it is functioning correctly.

It would be good to work out how your system got in this state.

information type:	Private Security → Public Security
information type:	Public Security → Public

Norbert (nrbrtx) on 2021-07-31

tags:

removed: groovy

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