Re: pam and yppasswd on Red Hat LINUX 6.1

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So you use pam_unix instead of pam_pwdb?  Is there any practical 
difference in behavior between the two?

>On Thu, 08 Feb 2001, Rick Goyette wrote:
>
>>  I must not be doing this quite right.  I placed a line in the passwd
>>  file in /etc/pam.d  so that it now looks like this:
>>
>>  more /etc/pam.d/passwd
>>
>>  #%PAM-1.0
>>  auth       required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so shadow nullok
>>  account    required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so
>>  password   required     /lib/security/pam_unix.so nis
>>  password   required     /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
>>  minlen=11 dcredit=2 difok=3
>>  password   required     /lib/security/pam_pwdb.so use_authtok 
>>nullok md5 shadow
>>
>>  Now when I use passwd instead of yppasswd it asks me everything
>>  twice, and I get an error at the end, although it does seem to be
>>  talking to the NIS server.
>[cut]
>
>This is what I use and it works for me (/etc/pam.d/passwd):
>auth            required        /lib/security/pam_unix.so
>account         required        /lib/security/pam_unix.so
>password        required        /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so 
>difok=2 minlen=8 dcredit=2 ocredit=2 retry=3
>password        required        /lib/security/pam_unix.so nis use_authtok
>
>Jan
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