Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2003 08:03:52 -0700 From: "cuddlesomebunny" <freebsduser@comcast.net> To: "twig les" <twigles@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Where to find pam_unix documentation? Message-ID: <008f01c38a88$b9939c70$5864a8c0@patience> References: <20031003200604.27927.qmail@web10101.mail.yahoo.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "twig les" <twigles@yahoo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 1:06 PM Subject: Where to find pam_unix documentation? > Hey *, I'm trying to do something fairly simple. On a 4.6 > Release box I would like to force all users to choose passwords > over a certain length and of a certain complexity. Now before > anyone jumps and says to edit /etc/login.conf, please note that > I tried that and it did not work. I don't want to get into too > much detail there because my req's that management handed down > go beyond the stated abilities there anyway; I need PAM. > > So basically from the docs here: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pam/pam-freebsd-modules.html > I gather that the module I need is pam_unix, but when I look for > the man page...nothing. I've spent about an hour on google now > also and found plenty of developers and admins talking about > using it, but nothing resembling a man page or even a how-to. > > Specifically I need to enforce the use of a mix of alphanumeric > and special chars, a minimum length, passwd expiration (with > forewarning preferably), passwd history, and account lockouts. > Note: I will gladly RTFM. Muchas thnx. According to man -w pam_unix it is located in /usr/share/man/man8/pam_unix.8.gz. I am using freeBSD 5.1.x Didja check freeBSD's site? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pam/pam-freebsd-modules.html Or go here (Once you get there be sure to change the OS version to match yours) http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=pam_unix&apropos=0&sektion=8&manpath=FreeBSD+4.8-RELEASE&format=html For a (I found one on google) How to (or so the article claims) http://www.wlug.org.nz/HowToUserAuthenticationHOWTO Here's a How To for Apache and mod_auth_pam http://www.linuxvalley.it/encyclopedia/ldp/howto/HOWTO/User-Authentication-HOWTO/x302.html Here's some simple stuff from Red Hat http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/ref-guide/s1-pam-samples.html Dunno what you were searching on but hope this helps.
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