Re: [TCLUG:20824] passwd security configuration

["Troy A. Johnson" <john1536@tc.umn.edu>]

Jer,

I don't know of a definitive guide, but I fished around (because it is
of interest to me and because _someone_ has got to know _something_
about it) and found these:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/index.html
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam.html
http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/HOWTO/User-Authentication-HOWTO/index.html

Troy 


jrsmit2@uswest.com wrote:
> 
> On this note, does ANYONE know of a definitive guide to pam.
> 
> I can't believe something enhances security when it's so poorly documented.
> 
> Jer
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Crumley [mailto:crumley@belka.space.umn.edu]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 3:14 PM
> To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG:20824] passwd security configuration
> 
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 03:59:17PM -0400, Brian wrote:
> > >Where is the file that sets the minimum password length and how >it
> checks
> > >is a password is a "bad" password, etc?
> >
> > I don't know the file names but I believe it's all set up in linuxconf.
> The
> > docs for linuxconf may give you a clue as to where it stores those.
> 
> Well, on Debian its under /etc/pam.d/passwd - I'd expect it would
> be something similar on Red Hat.
> 
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