Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (29 mails)

[Jiří Suchomel <jsuchome@xxxxxxx>]

On čt 12. června 2008, Justin Lim wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to setup some complex password settings and is having some
> problems with both SLES9 and SLES10.
>
> In my autoyast template I have the following <security> section
>     <security>
>         <console_shutdown>ignore</console_shutdown>
>         <cwd_in_root_path>no</cwd_in_root_path>
>         <fail_delay>5</fail_delay>
>         <faillog_enab>yes</faillog_enab>
>         <lastlog_enab>yes</lastlog_enab>
>         <encryption>blowfish</encryption>
>         <pass_max_days>60</pass_max_days>
>         <pass_min_days>0</pass_min_days>
>         <pass_warn_age>10</pass_warn_age>
>         <pass_max_len>20</pass_max_len>
>         <pass_min_len>10</pass_min_len>
>         <passwd_use_cracklib>yes</passwd_use_cracklib>
>         <permission_security>secure</permission_security>
>     </security>
>
> This would generate /etc/security/pam_pwcheck.conf to be
> Password:           minlen=20 cracklib blowfish nullok
>
> And also in /etc/login.defs sets
> PASS_MAX_DAYS   60
> PASS_MIN_DAYS   0
> PASS_WARN_AGE   10
>
> However when setting up complex passwords using the xlimits on
> /etc/pam.d/passwd ie
> more /etc/pam.d/passwd
> #%PAM-1.0
> auth required   pam_unix2.so    nullok
> account required        pam_unix2.so
> password required       pam_pwcheck.so
> password required       pam_cracklib.so use_first_pass use_authtok
> no_obscure_checks retry=3 minlen=11 difok=-1 dcredit=-1 ucredit=-
> 1
> password required       pam_pwcheck.so  use_authtok remember=12
> password required       pam_unix2.so    nullok use_first_pass  use_authtok
> session required        pam_unix2.so
>
> having the /etc/security/pam_pwcheck.conf as above will break it.  So
> /etc/security/pam_pwcheck.conf would have to be changed to the following
> Password:           blowfish nullok

I'm not sure if I understand: do you really only need to have 
final /etc/security/pam_pwcheck.conf as written just above? 

So why do you want to set minlen and cracklib to yes in security section?

Jiri

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