[KLUG Members] Password Rules

[Adam Williams]

>>Anyone know if, and if so, how to change password rules?  Specifically, in
>>RedHat 7.2, I used a 5 character password.  However, after switching to
>>RH7.3, minimum was 6 characters.  This must be changeable.....How?
>I'm not sure what file is changed but you can do that using 
>linuxconf - http://www.solucorp.qc.ca/linuxconf/

cracklib is called by pam_cracklib via the pam stack used by the pam 
enabled passwd program. On most RH system /etc/pam.d/passwd merely 
includes /etc/pam.d/system-auth (the global default pam stack).

See file:///usr/share/doc/pam-0.75/html/pam-6.html (path may be slightly 
different on your system) for the myriad of options.

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