exclude user from password policy?

[Stephen Carville]

Anne wrote:
> Sorry, I should have been more clear.
> 
> Basically I created a PAM policy to disable accounts after 5 unsuccessful
> logon attempts. Unfortunately, this included the ROOT account, which is
> causing major headaches. 
> 
> Just wondered if I could exclude the ROOT account in this PAM policy from
> inheriting this disable policy?

pam_listfile maybe?

> Thanks
> 
> Anne 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Manuel Arostegui Ramirez
> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 2:26 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: exclude user from password policy?
> 
> El Sábado, 26 de Mayo de 2007 04:37, Anne escribió:
>> Hi all
>>
>> Would someone be able to school me on how to exclude ROOT from my 
>> password policies? It's constantly getting disabled by the policy and 
>> of course I'm constantly having to hack it to get back in.
>>
>> Thank you for your help.
>>
>> Anne
> 
> Errrrr....what?
> What do you mean with your password policies? You mean that sort of things
> like password expiration, password minimum lenght and all that stuff?
> 
>