passwd history

[Tomas Mraz]

On Fri, 2004-12-10 at 10:29 -0600, Fu, Eveline C wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>             We have a linux cluster that is running RedHat 7.3 with
> pam-0.75-46.7.3.  I would like to find out how to set password
> history.

Create file /etc/security/opasswd rw only by root.
Edit /etc/pam.d/system-auth so the passwd line of pam_unix contains
option remember=X where X is number of last passwords to remember.

-- 
Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com>