Fedora Core 2 wishlists

Dax Kelson dax at gurulabs.com
Tue Dec 9 03:16:40 UTC 2003


On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 16:25, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 01:43:19PM -0500, Chris Ricker wrote:
> > it'd be nice if pam config files were restructured somewhat so that things
> > like default password policies could be established easily. Some of the
> > stuff in system-auth is managed by authconfig, and some isn't, which makes
> > it hard to work with currently (non-authconfig managed info should be moved
> > to a separate file so policy can be established w/o authconfig blowing your
> > changes away later)
> 
> When you mention "some of the stuff", do you mean cracklib's parameters,
> or something else entirely?

Besides the various cracklib parameters, there is also pam_unix's
"remember" parameter.

I would be nice to have both them configurable in some /etc/security
file instead (so authconfig doesn't blow em away).

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs





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