password policy

[Jens Schmidt]

thanks Tom,

I will try it out tonight

Jens

On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 22:18, Tom Browder wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Jens Schmidt
> > Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 3:19 AM
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> > Subject: password policy
> > How can I change the minimum required password length in 
> > Fedora. By default it is set to 6 how can I set the minimum 
> > length to 8.
> 
> >From a reply by Tomas Mras to a similar request to the pam-list at redhat.com
> (I recommend it if you're interested in this area):
> 
> Put the 
> password    requisite     pam_cracklib.so retry=5 minlen=8 dcredit=-1
> ucredit=-1 ocredit=0 lcredit=-1
> into /etc/pam.d/system-auth
> 
> He also ponted me to the command chage [sic] for chaging password aging
> parameters.
> 
> Tom Browder
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