Re: [suse-security] Can password security be improved using MDE in suse70

If anybody knows how to improve the password security on a SuSE 7.0 system i would appresiate the information.

This is how I did it I hope I did not unintentionally open myself up but at least it works. Edit /etc/pam.d/login and edit the line that says password required /lib/security/pam_pwcheck.so nullok md5 the md5 wa added by me I did this because in /etc/login.defs there was a comment saying # number of significant characters in the password for crypt() # ....etc ignored if th "md5" option is given to the pam_pwcheck option obviously I wanted to use md5 thus I added my option and now I can use longer passwords.