Changeset 19d6c39 for postlfs

Timestamp:

06/30/2020 12:40:31 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

693f28e1

Parents:

acdc8b01

Message:

Remove references to cracklib when talking about pam configuration, and add
references to libpwquality.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@23347 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

Location:

postlfs/security

Files:

• linux-pam.xml (modified) (2 diffs)
• shadow.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

postlfs/security/linux-pam.xml

@@ -106 +106 @@
       <xref linkend="db"/>,
       <xref linkend="libnsl"/>,
-      <xref linkend="libpwquality"/>,
       <xref linkend="libtirpc"/>, 
       <ulink url="https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-userspace">libaudit</ulink>, and
@@ -128 +127 @@
         need</phrase><phrase revision="sysv">needs</phrase> to be reinstalled
         after installing and configuring <application>Linux PAM</application>.
+      </para>
+
+      <para role="recommended">
+         With Linux-PAM-1.4.0 and higher, the pam_cracklib module is not
+         installed by default. To enforce strong passwords, it is recommended
+         to use <xref role="runtime" linkend="libpwquality"/>.
       </para>
     </note>

postlfs/security/shadow.xml

@@ -83 +83 @@
     <para role="required">
       <xref linkend="linux-pam"/> or
-      <xref linkend="cracklib"/>
+      <xref role="nodep" linkend="cracklib"/>
     </para>
 
@@ -97 +97 @@
       <para>
         The installation commands shown below are for installations where
-        <application>Linux-PAM</application> has been installed (with or
-        without a <application>CrackLib</application> installation) and
+        <application>Linux-PAM</application> has been installed and
         <application>Shadow</application> is being reinstalled to support the
         <application>Linux-PAM</application> installation.
@@ -268 +267 @@
         information. For information specific to integrating
         <application>Shadow</application>, <application>Linux-PAM</application>
-        and <application>CrackLib</application>, you can visit the following
-        link:
+        and <application>libpwquality</application>, you can visit the
+        following link:
       </para>