Bug 117960
| Summary: | pam_unix reminder option is not valid | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | Reporter: | Roger Nunn <rnunn> |
| Component: | pam | Assignee: | Tomas Mraz <tmraz> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2.1 | CC: | srevivo, t8m |
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| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-10-27 07:36:32 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Duplicate of bug 127524 |
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: