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Change Password Complexity Requirements
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There are no password requirements by default in CentOS and Fedora, however it is very simple to add them. edit /etc/pam.d/system-auth change the line which says: password requisite pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3 to password requisite pam_cracklib.so try_first_pass retry=3 minlen=8 ucredit=2 dcredit=3 ocredit=-1 … Continue reading

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