> My best guess here is that something is wrong with pam_cracklib.so on my > broken PAM machine. Is pam_cracklib.so dependent on something else I > might be checking out? Perhaps some general library or a configuration > file that shouldn't normally be seen or something? ldd /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so will tell you that, on this machine it has no config files. I however suspect it is something else, corrupt binary, corrupt config, etc. Very hard to tell is my experience, sometimes strace can be helpfull. Igmar