How To Install mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check on Ubuntu 20.04

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check on Ubuntu 20.04.

What is mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check

mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check is:

This password validation plugin uses cracklib to allow only sufficiently secure (as defined by cracklib) user passwords in MariaDB.

Package: mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check Architecture: amd64 Version: 1:10.3.22-1ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: same Priority: optional Section: universe/database Source: mariadb-10.3 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian MySQL Maintainers [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 91 Depends: libcrack2 (>= 2.9.0), mariadb-server-10.3, libc6 (>= 2.14) Filename: pool/universe/m/mariadb-10.3/mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check_10.3.22-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 14760 MD5sum: 3723541c8318b925e03278bcd19c419a SHA1: 833d2deac7be261c2a423fb8cf6e0f43edadaef2 SHA256: fd3fbc84e2cf9b217b60069b9af674edc493a810299e36526f899bcb3289a249 Homepage: https://mariadb.org/ Description-en: CrackLib Password Validation Plugin for MariaDB This password validation plugin uses cracklib to allow only sufficiently secure (as defined by cracklib) user passwords in MariaDB.

There are three methods to install mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check

Install mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check

Install mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check

How To Uninstall mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check on Ubuntu 20.04

To uninstall only the mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check

Uninstall mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check

Remove mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check Configurations and Data

To remove mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check

Remove mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check

References

• mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check website
• mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check on packages.ubuntu.com

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mariadb-plugin-cracklib-password-check package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.