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  1. Bug #139999
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 139999

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote :

To set a hard minimum password length, please use the 'min' option to pam_unix instead. The 'minlen' option to pam_cracklib doesn't do what the name suggests it should do.

I'm confirming this as a documentation bug; the pam_cracklib documentation needs to be made a lot clearer about this.