> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jens Schmidt > Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2004 3:19 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: password policy > How can I change the minimum required password length in > Fedora. By default it is set to 6 how can I set the minimum > length to 8. >From a reply by Tomas Mras to a similar request to the pam-list@xxxxxxxxxx (I recommend it if you're interested in this area): Put the password requisite pam_cracklib.so retry=5 minlen=8 dcredit=-1 ucredit=-1 ocredit=0 lcredit=-1 into /etc/pam.d/system-auth He also ponted me to the command chage [sic] for chaging password aging parameters. Tom Browder
