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sharingan
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password policy

Post by sharingan » 2020/06/30 14:32:11

Hi experts

while i was trying to change password policy in system-auth

found below lines

password requisite pam_pwquality.so try_first_pass local_users_only retry=3 authtok_type=

Password sufficient pam_unix.so sha512 shadow nullok try_first_pass use_authtok

password required pam_deny.so

can you please help me with below queries

1) which line i need to edit and why ?

2) To include one special character and a upper case what i need to change .

3) pwquality is it the library file ?

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TrevorH
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Re: password policy

Post by TrevorH » 2020/06/30 14:34:31

man pam_pwquality might help
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sharingan
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Re: password policy

Post by sharingan » 2020/06/30 15:47:40

Thanks , checking for all pam cases (pam_unix , pam_sufficient) in man page .
Just a query remain here how it works without library files

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