Description of problem: Issue: The customer has imposed a secure password policy using the following system-auth config: password sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5 shadow remember=12 The problem lies in the fact that the documentation in /usr/share/doc/pam-0.75/README.pam_unix clearly states that remember can be used to save passwords in /etc/security/opasswd for enforcing password uniqueness. This functionality does not work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): pam-0.75-46.7.3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Edit /etc/pam.d/system-auth adding remember=5 debug 2.attempt to change a users password 3.check /var/log/messages and the debug error reports remember as an invalid option Additional info:
Duplicate of bug 127524
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 127524 ***