[Samba] Samba3 and crackcheck

Dominique dcouot at hotmail.com
Wed Dec 12 03:28:58 MST 2012


On 11/12/2012 16:29, TAKAHASHI Motonobu wrote:
> 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.
>
> ---
> TAKAHASHI Motonobu <monyo at monyo.com>
>
>
Hi,

The install was done through apt. All the libraries you mention are 
installed, and still the same error.
I am running the 64 bit version of Ubuntu 12.04. Can that interfere with 
the process?

Dominique



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