Bug 60496

Summary:	RFE: Give authconfig the ability to set password length and simplicity.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Mike Gahagan <mgahagan>
Component:	authconfig	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Fixed In Version:	authconfig-6.2.1-1.fc17	Doc Type:	Enhancement
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Description Mike Gahagan 2002-02-28 16:49:35 UTC

Description of Problem:

RFE: Give authconfig the ability to configure pam to set options relating to
password length and/or simplicity. See also Bug 60495 (RFE for pam_cracklib)

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Comment 1 Gar Nelson 2004-11-02 23:43:57 UTC

There is an article by Hal Pomeranz in the Nov2004 SysAdmin magazine
on using pam_cracklib to increase password strength. With the Redhat
configuration program overwriting /etc/pam.d/system-auth, the chance
of any manual edits to this file surviving over time are slight. I
would like to see another tab added for password lenth and strength
configurable options.

Comment 2 Tomas Mraz 2004-11-18 09:14:59 UTC

The pam_cracklib arguments are fully preserved on rewriting the
system-auth file.