Password History Retention

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I use this in my /etc/pam.d/sshd and /etc/pam.d/passwd
since cracklib didn't seem to do what I needed.
YMMV.

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password required       pam_passwdqc.so enforce=3Deveryone min=3Ddisabled,6=
,6,6,6 max=3D8 match=3D6 similar=3Ddeny retry=3D100 passphrase=3D0
password required       pam_pwcheck.so nullok md5 remember=3D5
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On Monday 08 September 2003 11:47 am, Simper, Brian D wrote:
> I want to implement password history on a Linux machine. It would be nice
> to remember up to eight passwords so that users have to use a little more
> creativity in their passwords. A setting for this appears to be in
> /etc/pam.d/system-auth but the authconfig command overwrites this when ru=
n.
> How do you convince authconfig to remember and respect settings inside
> this? Or is there a better way to implement password history retention?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian Simper
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