Re: setting password length with gnome



On 11/11/09 13:19, Klistvud wrote:
> Dne, 10. 11. 2009 22:33:23 je Michael Young napisal(a):
>> 1. How can I use the gnome gui to set the minimum acceptable password
>> length to 8 for new user accounts.
>>
> In my humble experience, it depends on your distro. I'm on Debian which 
> generally overrides any security settings that you could set in Gnome. 
> Thus, adding new users or deleting old ones never worked in my Gnome, 
> it only ever worked if set on the command line. Now, about specifically 
> setting the password length -- I don't remember ever seeing a Gnome GUI 
> applet for doing that. I may be wrong, of course.

I suspect the place to achieve this is in the configuration of pam_cracklib.

/M

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