better NIS passwords !!!

mlu · 07-26-2005, 09:58 PM

i'm using a NIS server for central user authentication, once the user logs in & if the user types yppasswd he can change his own password, but the users can put simple passwords but it should be at least 6 characters, HOW TO PREVENT USERS FROM PUTTING SIMPLE PASSWORDS IN NIS???

PLS HELP

Matir · 07-26-2005, 10:31 PM

You could always use nis through PAM and use the PAM modules to validate the password first.

mlu · 07-27-2005, 12:09 AM

can u please explain how to do it??

THANKS

Matir · 07-27-2005, 12:16 AM

Google for "pam nis" returned: http://snow.nl/dist/xhtmlc/ch10s04.html

PAM and NIS are both incredibly simple interfaces, and should present no problems to this.