Sorry, I should have been more clear. Basically I created a PAM policy to disable accounts after 5 unsuccessful logon attempts. Unfortunately, this included the ROOT account, which is causing major headaches. Just wondered if I could exclude the ROOT account in this PAM policy from inheriting this disable policy? Thanks Anne -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Manuel Arostegui Ramirez Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 2:26 AM To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list Subject: Re: exclude user from password policy? El Sábado, 26 de Mayo de 2007 04:37, Anne escribió: > Hi all > > Would someone be able to school me on how to exclude ROOT from my > password policies? It's constantly getting disabled by the policy and > of course I'm constantly having to hack it to get back in. > > Thank you for your help. > > Anne Errrrr....what? What do you mean with your password policies? You mean that sort of things like password expiration, password minimum lenght and all that stuff? -- Manuel Arostegui Ramirez. Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
