Bug 60496 - RFE: Give authconfig the ability to set password length and simplicity.
Summary: RFE: Give authconfig the ability to set password length and simplicity.
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: authconfig
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Tomas Mraz
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Reported: 2002-02-28 16:49 UTC by Mike Gahagan
Modified: 2012-03-26 13:38 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: authconfig-6.2.1-1.fc17
Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2012-03-26 13:38:22 UTC
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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.
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