Google for "Linux PAM System Administrators Guide" or something akin to
that.
On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 18:23, Will Trillich wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:22:59PM -0400, Stephen Touset wrote:
> > Install libpam-cracklib, and change your /etc/pam.d/common-password file
> > to the following:
> >
> > password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=6
> > password required pam_unix.so md5
> >
> > This sets up a chain in which pam_cracklib is called (a
> > password-strength checker), requiring that the password be at least six
> > characters and pass a dictionary check. Then it calls the normal
> > pam_unix library to set the password as an MD5 hash in /etc/passwd.
>
> any chance you could craft a newbie howto on configuring pam? a
> couple of examples, how to interpret the manpages...
>
> :)
>
> my take is that there's a layer of "you're-expected-to-already-
> understand" between where i am and what the documentation
> covers. i'm probably just being dim, but if i had a better
> flashlight...
>
> --
> I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0;
> Linux boss 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Son Apr 14 09:53:28 CEST 2002 i586 unknown
>
> DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #41 from Colin Watson <cjw44@flatline.org.uk>
> :
> Do you need to MASSAGE A BUNCH OF FILE NAMES? There's more
> than one way to skin a cat -- here are some examples of
> canonicalizing file names to lower-case:
> mmv \* \#l1
> rename 'tr/A-Z/a-z/' *
> zsh -c 'for x in *; do mv "$x" "${x:l}"; done'
> (The "rename" command is a standard perl script, by the way.)
>
> Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
--
Stephen Touset <stephen@touset.org>
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