Re: RH9 min password length

From: Ben Measures (saint_abroadremove_at_removehotmail.com)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 02:30:10 +0000

stewart menday wrote:
> Hi all
> How do I change the min password length from 6 to 4 on Redhat 9? I
> tried adding minlen=4 in /etc/pam.d/system-auth on the line that has
> pam_cracklib.so and in /etc/login.conf but neither worked.
>
> Does anyone know how to do this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Stewart

If I did, I'd probably recommend against the change.

Its *much* easier to brute force crack a 4 character password, usually
by a factor of _at least_ 676, possibly even 4624 times easier.

Don't even go into dictionary cracks, 4 characters is ridiculously easy. 

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