TEST
As root, create a file, let's call it pdictlst, and make sure only root has read\write permissions.
Add a user's username to the file and save it.
Use the chuser command to set the password dictionary for that user to this file:
As that user, attempt to change the password to the username. You should receive an error:
IMPLEMENTATION
To enable this system-wide, make a copy of the default dictionary file /usr/share/dict/words. Add all the usernames to this file, then run the following command:
Now the dictionary password check will check both dictionary words and usernames. If the words file is not installed, I believe it is in the bos.data fileset.
Hi all of you..............
I am using openldap on ubuntu server . i want to apply password policy for user's to set password length , expire date , ......etc.
can anybody guide me to configure this. (1 Reply)
Hi Solaris's expert
I need to change user password on Solaris10 2 servers.
With the same password I can change it just only one.
Try to check everything but not found difference??
password pattern: abcdeFgh9Jk
server1 check all characters but server2 check only first 8 characters.Why??... (10 Replies)
Today i was going through some of security guides written on linux .
Under shadow file security following points were mentioned.
1)The encrypted password stored under /etc/shadow file should have more than 14-25 characters.
2)Usernames in shadow file must satisfy to all the same rules as... (14 Replies)
Hi,
I am running NIS server on redhat linux 5 and I want to implement password restrictions for the yppasswd, how can I do it.Please help me.
I can implement password restriction for passwd by configuring /etc/pam.d/system-auth and setting crack_lib.so but I don't know how to implent the same... (3 Replies)
hi folk,
i try to setup a new password policy for our solaris box user, below are the /etc/default/passwd/, but then when i tried to create a user, it didn't ask for numeric character, and the new password also didn't ask for special characters.
# useradd testing
# passwd testing
New... (7 Replies)
Hi linux expert,
i would like to create a script for listing all user with there password policy. It should be in the following format:
Last password change : Sep 19, 2011
Password expires : never
Password inactive : never
Account... (2 Replies)
Hi Experts,
i would like to know the description of the following:
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 90
Warning: 7
Inactive: -1
Last Change: Never
Password Expires: Never
Password Inactive: Never
Account Expires: Never
Does this means that... (2 Replies)
Hello All,
I have Sun DSEE7 (11g) on Solaris 10.
I have run idsconfig and initialized ldap client with profile created using idsconfig.
My ldap authentication works. Here is my pam.conf
# Authentication management
#
# login service (explicit because of pam_dial_auth)
#
login ... (3 Replies)
Hello Team,
I am using Lubuntu & have DRBL remote boot setup with open Ldap authentication. Currently there is no password expire policy. I want to set Password Policy so that user's password will expire after a month & they will get prompt to change their password.
Using PAM we can do it,... (1 Reply)
Hi,
I am unable to enforce password complexity policy for root user. (other users are working) on RHEL 6.2. Anything wrong with system-auth parameters? PLease help..
vi /etc/pam.d/system-auth
#%PAM-1.0
# This file is auto-generated.
# User changes will be destroyed the next time... (1 Reply)