Because there is no reference to /etc/security/pam_pwcheck.conf, I would say that fiddling with the cracklib settings is not going to help. It looks as though the support is just not there in SLES7.
Either live with it the way it is, or build your own (newer) version of PAM to run on the system. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JF T Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 12:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Password authentication with PAM SLES7 guest: brokers39008:/lib/security # strings pam_pwcheck.so | grep /etc CRACKLIB_DICTPATH is not set in /etc/login.defs 5@/etc/login.defs SLES8 guest: brokers39022:/lib/security # strings pam_pwcheck.so | grep /etc CRACKLIB_DICTPATH is not set in /etc/login.defs pam_pwcheck: CRACKLIB_DICTPATH is not set in /etc/login.defs /etc/security/pam_pwcheck.conf /etc/security/opasswd /etc/security/opasswd.tmpXXXXXX /etc/security/opasswd.old /etc/login.defs Cracklib setup appears to be similar (except for file sizes and timestamps): # If compiled with cracklib support, where are the dictionaries CRACKLIB_DICTPATH /usr/lib/cracklib_dict -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 Nov 5 2002 cracklib_dict.hwm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3819776 Nov 5 2002 cracklib_dict.pwd -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 222928 Nov 5 2002 cracklib_dict.pwi Greetings, Francois ING Canada/Anjou/QC francois (dot) tourigny (at,commercial) ingcanada (dot) com ----- Mark Post: If the pam_pwcheck.so module does not exist on your system, then you're probably out of luck (unless you're willing to build it yourself from source). If it does exist, then try this: strings /path/to/pam_pwcheck.so | grep etc/ and see if anything interesting pops out. Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
