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Bug 889233

Summary:	pam_cracklib: documantation need update regarding exceptions for root user
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Dalibor Pospíšil <dapospis>
Component:	pam	Assignee:	Tomas Mraz <tmraz>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Dalibor Pospíšil <dapospis>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	6.3	CC:	jchaloup, jdisnard, pschiffe, tmraz
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Documentation
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	pam-1.1.1-18.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	no docs needed	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2014-10-14 08:09:33 UTC	Type:	Bug
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Dalibor Pospíšil 2012-12-20 15:05:55 UTC

Description of problem:
There is no note about some exception of applying password restrictions for root user. Particulary difok is not applied to root user but man page does not say it so.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pam-1.1.1-13.el6

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. check man page for pam_cracklib
  
Actual results:
there is no note about root exceptions

Expected results:
some note about root exceptions should be there

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2013-09-11 12:12:46 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product
Management has requested further review of this request by
Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat
Enterprise Linux release for currently deployed products.
This request is not yet committed for inclusion in a release.

Comment 2 RHEL Program Management 2013-10-14 04:28:57 UTC

This request was not resolved in time for the current release.
Red Hat invites you to ask your support representative to
propose this request, if still desired, for consideration in
the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Comment 6 Tomas Mraz 2014-06-19 13:08:20 UTC

I will also add the missing documentation for the legacy type= option.

Comment 7 Tomas Mraz 2014-06-19 13:09:17 UTC

*** Bug 718034 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Tomas Mraz 2014-07-21 11:21:45 UTC

There is the sentence:

"Note that root is not asked for an old password so the checks that compare the old and new password are not performed."

in the description of enforce_for_root option. I think adding additional text to each option that compares new password to old password is quite unnecessary and not worth respinning the package again. Also the behavior of password changing for root is quite self-explaining - you can hardly compare the new password against the old one when the root is not asked for old one.

Comment 11 Dalibor Pospíšil 2014-07-21 11:31:31 UTC

I agree that this is not worth of respin but it is still a bit confusing as the reader need to read all document to get it. But I can live it that.

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2014-10-14 08:09:33 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2014-1579.html