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Old 10-13-2003, 01:30 AM   #1
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control the password


when I install the RH linux , I 've set to use the default setting to control the user can't use a specific password eg. too simple , the word in dictionary , the password has been used previously, how can I disable this control so that users can use the password the password they want ? thx.
 
Old 10-13-2003, 04:37 AM   #2
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All password-authentication with password length,dictionarys etc is hold by the pam-module in linux. The best way to solve this is to read up on pam. The pamfiles is located under /etc/pam.d/*
 
  


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