RE: [TCLUG:20824] passwd security configuration

[Nitebirdz <nitebirdz@uswest.net>]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, 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.
> 

Check out /etc/pam.d/login in your Red Hat box.  If you need some
documentation/explanation on how PAM works, check out this URL:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/


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