Hello,
i want tot enable password policy (complex password) in debian 4.0 , i used pam_cracklib.so , but it didn't work good.

any suggestion,
Thanks

Hi,

Debian 4 stopped getting security updates over two years ago[1]. Is there any reason you haven't upgraded?

Regarding your specific problem: what do you mean by "it didn't work good". What happened? What error messages?

Evo2.

1. http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/

finally done it, it was misunderstanding .. here is what i did:

NOTE) if you are root and create the password for that user, then you can make it anything you want (regardless of the cracklib settings). You'll still see the hard-coded "password too short" message if you use a short password, but it will still let you use it. You won't even see the cracklib warnings like "too simple" at all. However, if you log in as that user and try to change the passwd, all the cracklib requirements will apply.

md5 : Encrypt new passwords with the MD5 algorithm.
nullok : Allow users to access services even if their password is blank.
nullok_secure :Idem, as long as PAM_TTY equals one of the values found in/etc/securetty.
obscure : Enable some extra checks on password strength.
ucredit: Uppercase
dcredit: digit
ocredit:Non-alphanumeric
difok: the minimum number of characters that must be different from the previous password.
lcredit:lowercase

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Apt-get install libpam-cracklib

/etc/pam.d/common-password

password required pam_unix.so obscure md5
password required pam_cracklib.so minlen=6 ucredit=-1 ocredit=-2 dcredit=-1


Thank u all,