RE: Passwords on Linux systems(for all flavors)
"Don Gray" <[email protected]>
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________________________________ From: Glynn Clements [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sun 7/10/2005 2:02 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Passwords on Linux systems(for all flavors) [email protected] wrote: > 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. It all depends on the administrators settings and thier understanding of PAM; there are some useful guides to securing basic services like the following: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/security/security-handbook.xml?full=1