exclude user from password policy?

[Furnish, Trever G]

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> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Carville
> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 10:47 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: exclude user from password policy?
> 
> 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?

Agreed, that's a nice generic approach.

She didn't mention which pam module she's using to do the failed login counting.  If it's pam_tally, then the default is not to count for root.

> > Thanks
> > 
> > Anne
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com
> > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
> > 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?
> > 
> > 
> 
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