Package: cracklib-runtime Version: 2.9.6-2 Severity: normal File: /etc/cron.daily/cracklib-runtime
Dear Maintainer, I was looking over the installed cron jobs on my machine and noticed /etc/cron.daily/cracklib-runtime which I think would be better if it simply did not exist. I really wonder what purpose running update-cracklib every day serves. There must be a better solution. While I'm not familiar with how cracklib works internally please let me speculate on the different ways things could be affected by this cronjobs existance or not. Usecase: sysadm installs a new dictionary via a package, the package postinst script most likely triggers the update-cracklib (or even better if dpkg triggers are used which would likely be more effective). Usecase: sysadm drops a file into a directory to use it as a dictionary. Waits an entire days before its actually usable. ERRRR! Wait, why would someone do this? Ofcourse they're going to manually run update-cracklib so the dictonary becomes available at once, thus no cron job needed. I'm having a hard time coming up with more usecases. Please tell me what purpose the cronjob serves. If the cron job gets removed the 99.999999% of all users who had this installed via some dependency chain would not waste resources, possibly battery time, etc. Regards, Andreas Henriksson PS. if dropping the cronjob, please make sure to rm_conffile it so it doesn't linger on upgrades and also drop this sentence from the manpage: "By default this script is called by cron every day." -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: armhf Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages cracklib-runtime depends on: ii file 1:5.35-4 ii libc6 2.28-8 ii libcrack2 2.9.6-2 Versions of packages cracklib-runtime recommends: ii wamerican [wordlist] 2018.04.16-1 cracklib-runtime suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
