Bug 67564

Summary:	Add cracklib support to APG
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Conway S. Smith <beolach+gb>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) <seemant>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	brotbert
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.adel.nursat.kz/apg/index.shtml
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	APG ebuild w/ cracklib USE flag APG Makefile patch to enable cracklib support.

Description Conway S. Smith 2004-10-14 09:57:32 UTC

APG version 2.3.0b has optional compile time support for cracklib, but the current apg-2.3.0b.ebuild does not use it.  From apg's man page "-k    check  every  generated password using cracklib. To use this ability you must enable cracklib support during programm building."  So I created this ebuild to add a USE flag for cracklib support in APG.  This is my first time doing anything w/ ebuilds, but this seemed like a fairly simple thing, and this ebuild works for me.  If the USE flag is specified at emerge, it applies a patch to APG's Makefile to enable the cracklib support.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
apg -k
Actual Results:  
apg: unknown option -k

Expected Results:  
Generated passwords checked against cracklib to ensure strong passwords.

The one biggest thing I was unsure of was in my patched Makefile to enable
cracklib support one of the envirement variables required is CRACKLIB_DICTPATH,
which should be whatever DICTPATH was when cracklib was installed.  In
cracklib-2.7-r10 this was "/usr/lib/cracklib_dict".  I wasn't sure if there was
any way to check for any other possible DICTPATH at compile time (or even if it
would be necessary to), so I just hardcoded it to "/usr/lib/cracklib_dict".

Comment 1 Conway S. Smith 2004-10-14 09:59:35 UTC

Created attachment 41811 [details]
APG ebuild w/ cracklib USE flag

Comment 2 Conway S. Smith 2004-10-14 10:00:44 UTC

Created attachment 41812 [details, diff]
APG Makefile patch to enable cracklib support.

Goes in /usr/portage/app-admin/apg/files/

Comment 3 Conway S. Smith 2004-10-14 10:02:57 UTC

Oh, and I guess something like this should go into /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc
app-admin/apg:cracklib - Support for cracklib strong password checking

Comment 4 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-15 11:14:45 UTC

Rob, I need help with this -- TaD's not with gentoo any more due to his real life obligations.

Comment 5 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-12-30 13:37:32 UTC

thanks Conway, in portage.