On Sunday 06 March 2005 05:59 pm, komal wrote: > I am trying to rein the beast call PAM to control password selection > by user. However, so far I am not succeeding. I want users to use at > least password greater than eight characters. Below is the file > system-auth which is calls by passwd in Fedora core3. What changes I > need to make to achieve password control.
You need to modify /etc/login.defs, not /etc/pam.d/system-auth. Change the line "PASS_MIN_LEN 5" to "PASS_MIN_LEN 8", without the quotes, and FC3 will not accept passwords less than 8 characters long.
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