Segfault with cracklib and PAM

[Sebastien Tricaud]

Hi,

thanks for reporting the issue,
I opened the bug #2347 and will have a look at it as soon as I can.

(see 
https://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=2347&group_id=2134)


Jim Gifford wrote:

> Sympton: Whenever certain passwords are used passwd segfaults with PAM.
>                Passwords that cause the issue are: G at ndalFchicken1234
>
>                 Passwords that work: @njaeN chicken2345
>
> You can follow our thread at 
> http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/blfs-support/2004-August/051475.html 
>
>
> Our build instructions are at 
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/postlfs/security.html
>
> Error Message
>
> (current) UNIX password:
> New UNIX password:
> (index fread failed): Success
> Segmentation fault
>
> File /etc/pam.d/passwd
>
> /etc/pam.d/passwd:
> # Begin /etc/pam.d/passwd
> password    required    pam_cracklib.so    \
>    retry=3 difok=8 minlen=15 dcredit=3 ocredit=3 ucredit=2 lcredit=2
> password    required    pam_unix.so    md5 shadow use_authtok
> # End /etc/pam.d/passwd
>
>