password complexity

[John O'Loughlin]

> Nis does not need to be PAM-aware - the local passwd command is.
> In fact technically just 'passwd' should be enough... (as long as the
> 'nis' argmuent is passed to pam_unix. This also makes things uniform -
> all users just use the passwd command, whether they are nis users or not.
> As for yppasswdd , dunno. It doesn't use PAM AFAIK
> the three pam lines you should have will be something like (simplified!)
>Password strengths are checked *before* the NIS service and the whole
> 'password' group exits if the pass is not good enough.
>

Many thanks -- thats worked out well.

John

>
> regards
>
> Stuart
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