diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/pam/libpam_1.5.3.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/pam/libpam_1.5.3.bb
index bcaa84c9a5..f05272652d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/pam/libpam_1.5.3.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/pam/libpam_1.5.3.bb
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${GITHUB_BASE_URI}/download/v${PV}/Linux-PAM-${PV}.tar.xz \
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "7ac4b50feee004a9fa88f1dfd2d2fa738a82896763050cd773b3c54b0a818283"
 
-DEPENDS = "bison-native flex-native cracklib libxml2-native virtual/crypt"
+DEPENDS = "bison-native flex-native libxml2-native virtual/crypt"
 
 EXTRA_OECONF = "--includedir=${includedir}/security \
                 --libdir=${base_libdir} \