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..
Last edited by Don Cragun; 10-12-2015 at 01:57 PM..
Reason: Add CODE tags.
Hello All,
I have several solaris boxes running Solaris 8. When changing root passwords on them, all will simply ask for the new root password to change and of course to re-type the new password. One of the systems however asks for the existing root password before it will display the new password... (8 Replies)
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)
I need help. I have set a password policy. But I want to dis allow setting user name as password.
My policy is as below...
min length =8
min diff=2
min alpha=2
max repeats=2
dictionary= /usr/share/dict/words
Still user can set his username as password (i.e. Jackie1234).
Code tags for... (11 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
pam_warn
PAM_WARN(8) Linux-PAM Manual PAM_WARN(8)NAME
pam_warn - PAM module which logs all PAM items if called
SYNOPSIS
pam_warn.so
DESCRIPTION
pam_warn is a PAM module that logs the service, terminal, user, remote user and remote host to syslog(3). The items are not probed for, but
instead obtained from the standard PAM items. The module always returns PAM_IGNORE, indicating that it does not want to affect the
authentication process.
OPTIONS
This module does not recognise any options.
MODULE TYPES PROVIDED
The auth, account, password and session module types are provided.
RETURN VALUES
PAM_IGNORE
This module always returns PAM_IGNORE.
EXAMPLES
#%PAM-1.0
#
# If we don't have config entries for a service, the
# OTHER entries are used. To be secure, warn and deny
# access to everything.
other auth required pam_warn.so
other auth required pam_deny.so
other account required pam_warn.so
other account required pam_deny.so
other password required pam_warn.so
other password required pam_deny.so
other session required pam_warn.so
other session required pam_deny.so
SEE ALSO pam.conf(5), pam.d(5), pam(7)AUTHOR
pam_warn was written by Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>.
Linux-PAM Manual 06/04/2011 PAM_WARN(8)