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Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 18:26:00 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: passwdqc-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: failing to force random passwords with random=only
Hi,
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:29:26AM +0000, johnfoobar wrote:
> I'd like to force random passwords on a RHEL 6.4 system with
> pam_passwdqc-1.0.5-6
>
> The password section in system-auth-ac looks like this:
>
> password required pam_passwdqc.so random=15,only
15 bits is way too little. For pam_passwdqc 1.0.5, the minimum was 24
(so trying to use less than that results in a deliberate failure like
what you report) and the default was 42 (and both were increased since
then). I suggest that you try "random=42,only". This should work.
Alexander
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