[lug] easing up on password restrictions?

[John Hernandez]

You can disable the pam_cracklib module, probably in /etc/pam.d/system-auth

Comment out a line that looks like:

password    required      /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3

It's all documented at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam.html

Cheers,
John

charles at lunarmedia.net wrote:
> 
> i need to ease up on the password requirements put on users when changing
> their passwords. i have quite a few customers who do not have shell access
> to servers within my company, however when they go to change their
> password, they continually complain that what they attempt to use as a new
> password is always rejected.
> i assume that this has something to do with pam restrictions? i am pretty
> new to pam and how it works. i frankly need to allow users to set their
> passwords as they see fit on certain servers. how can i go about allowing
> this?
> 
> thanks -cjm
> 
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