On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Ed Wilts wrote:
> vi /etc/login.defs > > You could have found this answer by doing a Google search for "linux minimum > password length". I found the answer in about 2 minutes. This doesn't work. You need to search a little bit more. You need to set the pam_cracklib option "minlen" in /etc/pam.d/system-auth. But this is getting more complicated since pam_cracklib is also using credits and there is also a hardcoded limit. Check the pam_cracklib documentation. Werner > > ../Ed > > Ed Wilts > Mounds View, MN, USA > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "José Romildo Malaquias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 12:27 PM > Subject: User password length > > > How can I configure my Skipjack system so that I cancel the > > minmum 6 characters password length for login? In prior > > Red Hat Linux systems I changed the user passwords within > > linuxconf, which did not obey this minum length rule. > > Now that linuxconf is not in the distribution anymore, > > I need to learn how to acomplish this task. > > > > Any clues? > > > > Regards. > > > > Romildo > > -- > > Prof. José Romildo Malaquias Departamento de Computação > > http://iceb.ufop.br/~romildo Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brasil > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
