F16 - Password requirements

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com> wrote:

> On 07/03/2012 08:56 AM, Jeffrey Ross issued this missive::
>
>  How do I relax the password requirements in Fedora?
>>
>> I though adjusting /etc/pam.d/system-auth was were the changed needed to
>> be made, I made this change:
>>
>> #password    requisite     pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3 type=
>> password    sufficient    pam_unix.so sha512 shadow nullok try_first_pass
>> #use_authtok
>> password    required      pam_deny.so
>>
>> but Fedora still seems to be strict on password requirements.  So either I
>> attacked the wrong file or made the wrong changes.
>>
>> Any pointers to where I should be making my changes?
>>
>
> You can remove pam_cracklib from the chain, change it to "optional" or
> change its parameters. Check "man pam_cracklib" for how it works and
> the parameters it accepts. Personally, I'd leave it "requisite" and
> change its parameters to accommodate your relaxed restrictions.
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It may also be necessary to make an adjustment to the requirements in
/etc/login.def to relax it. That file controls things like logging it and
number of times you may enter it before it will not be accepted.

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Charlie Kravetz
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