On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Ben Luey wrote: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ > > Thanks -- that was a great help. Now I learned that the pam_cracklib.so > controls the password security checking features. The docs give this as an > example. > > passwd password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 > passwd password required pam_pwdb.so use_authtok > > (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam-6.html#ss6.3 > explains it well) > > But looking at my system I see cracklib being called by pam not just for > passwd when changing the password, but also in chfn, chsh, gdm, login and > su -- basically any program that does authorization. What is teh > pam_cracklib doing for authorization? Does does anything but passwd > need/want it? > If you also installed the documentation, check out /usr/doc/pam-0.72/txts/pam.txt Of course, your version number may be different. Also, there are PostScript and HTML format in the same directory. ------------------------------- Nitebirdz http://www.linuxnovice.org Your place for tips, news, etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org