thanks Tom, I will try it out tonight Jens On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 22:18, Tom Browder wrote: > > -----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 -- Jens Schmidt 20 Station St Belgrave, VIC 3160
