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Re: Password security/Weak Password lockout



On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 02:07:52AM -0500, Paul Gupta <wubrgamer@gmail.com> was heard to say:
> I have seen opensuse and perhaps fedora do the same thing during the  
> installation.  It'll spit out a warning saying similar to "This password  
> is too weak, are you sure you want to use it?"
>
> I'm assuming (which I hate to do, which is why I'm asking) that it's  
> using the same thing across all of these different distros.
>
> What is it exactly? AND How would one configure it to be stricter or  
> more lenient with password selection?

  I think you need to look at /etc/pam.d/common-password (which I found
by first looking in /etc/pam.d/passwd).

  Daniel


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