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| Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote Re: [Bug 139999] Re: pam_cracklib 'minlen' option is misnamed and poorly explained | #5 |
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:48:18PM -0000, Chris Bozic wrote:
> Ok, just to be clear, this is NOT just a documentation bug. As I have
> said above (although not very clearly), the "min" option to pam_unix
> does not work. I can have it set to 8 and still add new users with 6
> character passwords. While I do agree with you that the "minlen" option
> to pam_cracklib is confusing and needs better documentation, there still
> seems to be a bug in the code of pam_unix that prevents the "min" option
> from working. I have seen this behavior on both Hardy and Gutsy.
Oh - sorry, which version of Ubuntu are you running? I know that pam_unix's
'min' option is broken in versions prior to 0.99.7.1-4, which would affect
Ubuntu 7.04 and earlier. That bug is definitely fixed for Ubuntu 7.10 and
8.04 LTS, however.
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