On Tue, 12 May 1998, Steve Hazelett wrote:
> I did a fresh install of RH4.2 on a system at work and when a user wants
> to change their password it deny's them doing so because it comes back with
> the password is based on a dictionary word.
> When I installed RH4.1 at home I have never received this message even
> after upgrading to RH4.2.
> So what is the difference and what causes my system at work to do this?
> I'd like to know why and if it's possible to eliminate this so a user can
> enter any password they like.
try this:
edit /etc/pam.d/passwd and comment the line:
password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3
I've never tryed this, so it's an "experiment".
Oh, and while I'm at it is it possible to set
> the password to expire and how is this done?
Do you have shadow on ?
if yes, you can do this by editing some fields in /etc/shadow
man shadow for more details.
Also is it possible to keep a
> history on the password a user inputs? Thanks
>
Don't know any way of doing this...
>
> ... steve
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