changing minimum password length in Jaunty

[Stephen Burke]

I was able to enforce the password length that I needed via the
pam_cracklib module.  I didn't realize I needed to install it.  Here's
the steps I used.

sudo apt-get install libpam-cracklib

The /etc/pam.d/common-password file is modified and out of the box
strong passwords with a minimum length of 8 will be enforced.

Steve

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 7:02 PM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 17:00 -0600, Stephen Burke wrote:
>> I'm having some trouble changing the minimum password length in
>> Jaunty.  I've tried changing lines in my /etc/pam.d/common-password
>> file a bunch of times adding min=8, minlen=8 etc.  But nothing seems
>> to work when I try & run the command sudo adduser and see it ask for a
>> password of at least 8 characters.  Can anyone help with the correct
>> lines that I need in my common-password file to enforce a minimum
>> length of password?
>
> IIRC root gets to override that whenever it wants. Try as a regular user
> changing your password and see if it enforces it then.
>
> Brian
>
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