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Cannot change required password length

Are there any other places this kind of information can be stored? (CentOS 4) I made the below changes but when I try to change a password it still says

"The password is too short. Please use at least 6 characters."

- I looked at /etc/login.defs and PASS_MIN_LEN was already set to 5.

- There is no such file as /etc/pam.d/common-password

- There is nothing having to do with password lengths in /etc/pam.d/system-auth. This is what it says about passwords there:

Code:

password requisite /lib/security/$ISA/pam-cracklib.so retry=3

password sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5 shadow

password required /lib/security/$ISA/pam_deny.so

(in fact the string 'min' is nowhere in any file in /etc/pam.d/* - I grep'ped -i for it)

kirilisa, please don't resurrect dead threads.

The thread you've posted in is over three years old. I'm moving your post to its own thread in Software.

See minlen in man pam_cracklib.

Your grep should have included libpam.