Google for "Linux PAM System Administrators Guide" or something akin to that.
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 18:23, Will Trillich wrote: > On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:22:59PM -0400, Stephen Touset wrote: > > Install libpam-cracklib, and change your /etc/pam.d/common-password file > > to the following: > > > > password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=6 > > password required pam_unix.so md5 > > > > This sets up a chain in which pam_cracklib is called (a > > password-strength checker), requiring that the password be at least six > > characters and pass a dictionary check. Then it calls the normal > > pam_unix library to set the password as an MD5 hash in /etc/passwd. > > any chance you could craft a newbie howto on configuring pam? a > couple of examples, how to interpret the manpages... > > :) > > my take is that there's a layer of "you're-expected-to-already- > understand" between where i am and what the documentation > covers. i'm probably just being dim, but if i had a better > flashlight... > > -- > I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; > Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown > > DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #41 from Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > : > Do you need to MASSAGE A BUNCH OF FILE NAMES? There's more > than one way to skin a cat -- here are some examples of > canonicalizing file names to lower-case: > mmv \* \#l1 > rename 'tr/A-Z/a-z/' * > zsh -c 'for x in *; do mv "$x" "${x:l}"; done' > (The "rename" command is a standard perl script, by the way.) > > Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- Stephen Touset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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