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Passwords on Linux systems(for all flavors) Jul 09 2005 04:12PM
shyaam gmail com (4 replies)
Re: Passwords on Linux systems(for all flavors) Jul 11 2005 01:18AM
fl.martin (fl martin oreka com)
Re: Passwords on Linux systems(for all flavors) Jul 10 2005 11:11PM
Kurt Seifried (bt seifried org)
Re: Passwords on Linux systems(for all flavors) Jul 10 2005 09:02PM
Glynn Clements (glynn gclements plus com)
Re: Passwords on Linux systems(for all flavors) Jul 10 2005 06:49PM
Daniel Carrillo (daniel carrillo gmail com)
El sáb, 09-07-2005 a las 16:12 +0000, shyaam (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed] escribió:
> Dear Group members/list,

Hi.

> I would like to know the place where I can find the linux password constraints for the various linux flavors. What I mean is the details like number of key spaces or the key length, the types of charactors that can be used, the restrictions and the number of times the password can be tried if not infinite, etc. I am in need of these details very urgently, so please do help me on this topic.

The password "mechanism" normally uses Linux-PAM (Pluggable
Authentication Modules) integration. The constraints that you mention
can be implemented with some PAM modules.

See: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam.html

And specifically:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/pam-6.html#ss6.3

Regards.

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