I want to set a password policy but I am unable to get it working
I have this under /etc/pam.d/common-password
I tried the last line but I get some errors when a new user is trying to set his/her password
basically I want the user to user uppercase letter, lower case letter, a symbol and a number and only 3 previous characters are permitted from previous password
1)
PermitEmptyPasswords is set to No
# grep "^PermitEmptyPasswords" /etc/ssh/sshd_config
PermitEmptyPasswords no
If there is no output does it implies 'As parameter was not set mean system will also not accepted emptypassword.'
2)
Users is not allowed to set... (2 Replies)
Below is the error I'm getting.
# passwd username
Changing password for username.
New Password:
Reenter New Password:
Password changed.
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
Password has been already used. Choose another.
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error# cat... (0 Replies)
Hi,
We forgot the root password on SuSE version 10 server. Since I didn't have SuSE DVD, I started the server using Redhat. I updated /etc/shadow and removed the root password.
I then started the server and I still can't login using root. Any idea?
One more question, on Novell web... (6 Replies)
Hello guys,
I'm currently working on replacing old server and it's migration from SuSe
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64)
VERSION = 10
PATCHLEVEL = 4
to the RedHat
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.4 (Santiago)
Problem seems be in migration of users passwords,... (2 Replies)
hi guys
I've configured some CentOS where you can set a password for VNC and that password is requested before connecting to the normal user login
But I found that Suse 10 SP3 has no such thing
basically it has this configuration under /etc/xinetd.d/vnc
service vnc1
{
... (2 Replies)
In AIX 5.3 tech level 11:
I want to setup a default password policy to have at least one
of each of the following: alpha character, numeric character, and "special"
character ("!", "&", etc).
The smitty Security and Users --> Passwords --> System Password
Policy screen only offers "MIN... (2 Replies)
Hi Guy's
Just I want to know the default settings of security password in AIX there is some changes happened in my machine when I try to change my password I'm getting this message
Changing password for "root"
root's New password:
a minimum of 1 elapsed week between changes.... (1 Reply)
Is there a way in HP-UX to require passwords to use a certain number of alpha and numeric characters? If so, please let me know the file where I can update to enforce this setting. Thanks (3 Replies)