Tip of the Trade: Setting Password Policy With PAM

Courtesy Linux Today  Mon, 09/15/2008 - 18:32

ServerWatch: "The PAM module pam_cracklib can enforce both length and complexity. For length, it uses the minlen option.

For complexity, it has options dcredit, ucredit, lcredit, and ocredit..."


 

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