password policy

[Tom Browder]

> -----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