[Samba] Samba3 and crackcheck

[TAKAHASHI Motonobu]

From: Dominique <dcouot at hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:08:06 +0100

> 
> On 11/12/2012 15:43, TAKAHASHI Motonobu wrote:
>> From: Dominique <dcouot at hotmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:45:51 +0100
>>
>>> I've got samba3 on ubuntu 12 up and running with one exception. I try to
>>> get password complexity working to no avail.
>>> I understood I needed crackcheck, which in turn needed to be compiled.
>>> I downloaded the samba-doc package, and tried to compile crackcheck with a
>>> simple make, but all it returns is failure with the following error:
>>> crackcheck.c:6:19: fatal error: crack.h: No such file or directory
>> You need to install the library of cracklib. For ubuntu, libcrack2-dev is
>> its package name.
> 
> That got rid of that error.And of course a new one shows...
> 
> gcc  -O2   -c -o crackcheck.o crackcheck.c
> crackcheck.c: In function âmainâ:
> crackcheck.c:132:8: warning: assignment discards âconstâ qualifier from
> pointer target type [enabled by default]
> gcc  -O2 -lcrack -o crackcheck crackcheck.o
> crackcheck.o: In function `main':
> crackcheck.c:(.text.startup+0xc4): undefined reference to `FascistCheck'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [crackcheck] Error 1
> 
> Any ideas for that one?

Did you install libcrack2-dev with apt/aptitude or such kind of tool?
Packages that libcrack2-dev depends on are also needed.

In my environment, wamerican, libcrack2 and cracklib-runtime are also
installed with libcrack2-dev.

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TAKAHASHI Motonobu <monyo at monyo.com>