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setup pasword problem in Linux

Kevin_peng — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:26:42 GMT

1.How to force user to change their temporary password at next time login.

2.How to setup password length is set to six characters for users.

Re: setup pasword problem in Linux

Ryan Goh — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 23:14:30 GMT

1,2)You can do so with webmin for most of linux distribution to configure these tasks. For Suse, you can use Yast to configure.

2) You canconfigure in PAM using webmin, or Yast in Suse linux, is easy to configure because is GUI based.

Re: setup pasword problem in Linux

Alexander Chuzhoy — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:02:42 GMT

1. chage -d 0 username will force the "username" to change his password after next successfull login.
2.edit the file /etc/login.defs and edit the value after PASS_MIN_LEN variable.

You didn't mention the OS you work on, I assumed it's RedHat.
Regards.

Re: setup pasword problem in Linux

Ivan Ferreira — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 08:23:20 GMT

>>> 1. chage -d 0 username will force the "username" to change his password after next successfull login.

This is correct, and works with mnost linux distro.

>> Edit the file /etc/login.defs and edit the value after PASS_MIN_LEN variable.

This file has not effect anymore, you should use pam cracklib. Edit /etc/pam.d/system-auth and set:

password requisite /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib retry=3 minlen=6