In the following line do you not need type=user? Without it passwd tells me "passwd: cannot retrieve user's name" password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so difok=2 minlen=8 dcredit=2 ocredit=2 retry=3 John Delisle Corporate Technology Ceridian Canada Ltd 204-975-5909 Jan Rekorajski <baggins-pam@sith.mim To: pam-list@redhat.com uw.edu.pl> cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: pam and yppasswd on Red Hat LINUX 6.1 pam-list-admin@redhat .com 2001/02/08 09:28 AM Please respond to pam-list 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 -- Jan Rękorajski | ALL SUSPECTS ARE GUILTY. PERIOD! baggins<at>mimuw.edu.pl | OTHERWISE THEY WOULDN'T BE SUSPECTS, WOULD THEY? BOFH, MANIAC | -- TROOPS by Kevin Rubio _______________________________________________ Pam-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/pam-list