Hi Rob, I think the redhat 7.1 is having this future by default. I have tried it without any difficulty. but if you want to see the real use of password checking login as local user (non root) and then try to change the password for that user, u will notice that the password will be accepted inly if it is complicated Regards Dharmendra.T Linux Expert nSecure Software(P) Ltd. www.nsecure.net On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Rob wrote: > I am looking for a password program that root can use..DUH. I want to set a > minimum # of characters, uppercase letters, and numbers/special characters. > I have tried to use PAM with Cracklib like this: > /etc/pam.d/passd and /etc/pam.d/login (have tried in both): > password required pam_cracklib.so minlen=10 dcredit= 2 ucredit=2 // > minimum of 10 characters, 2 uppercase, 2 digits > > I then saved and exited, rebooted and logged in as root and created a new > user, did the password, and then logged out and logged back in as the user > and changed my password and none of the requireds that i made took. I have > researched this and the only info i can find that is slightly helpful is > from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam.html > Is there anything i am doing wrong in this?? > > OR is there a program that i can use in Gnome/command line that will do this > same thing but work?? > > I work for Dell Linux and have talked to RH and they just looked at the code > for Linuxconf and didnt find anything usefull except for Linuxconf specific > info/config and NO i do NOT want to use Linuxconf...using RH 7.1 and it is > not supported by/from RH since they didnt isntall it by default due to some > issues with the new layout or something like that, dont know > specifically...but you can isntall it but i dont want it. > > Rob Wideman > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com > with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message. > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe email security-discuss-request@linuxsecurity.com with "unsubscribe" in the subject of the message.
