Package: python-cracklib
Version: 2.8.19-1
Severity: grave
For some reason, cracklib currently errs out with the following message
on my system:
/var/cache/cracklib/cracklib_dict: error reading header
PWOpen: No such file or directory
Whatever the real reason for that is, the python binding for cracklib
immediately aborts the python interpreter instead of throwing an exception.
This in turn makes 'revelation' simply crash whenever I try to add or
generate a password, for example.
It looks like this is a known issue upstream, see FascistCheck() in
lib/fascist.c:
if (!(pwp = PWOpen(path, "r")))
{
/* shouldn't perror in a library or exit */
/* but should we return a "bad password" or "good password" if this
error occurs */
perror("PWOpen");
exit(-1);
}
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-rt-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages python-cracklib depends on:
ii cracklib-runtime 2.8.19-1
ii libc6 2.13-33
ii libcrack2 2.8.19-1
ii python 2.7.3~rc2-1
ii python2.6 2.6.8-0.2
ii python2.7 2.7.3~rc2-2.1
python-cracklib recommends no packages.
python-cracklib suggests no packages.
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