On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 11:18 -0500, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu wrote: > > Here is my question, I have a DataBase CentOS server working with > about > > 150 users connected via ssh, so I want to set up for all users strongs > > passwords, I mean, 8 or more caracters, with ,.;* , ect....... Is > there > > some option, bash command which do that? > > > Great, but: > > 1. My users have to work on the shell because, they run a C++ scritp to > work in tha database.. > 2. So I want to force my users to pick a strong password.. Is there some > command, tool to do this? Isreal- Take a look at /etc/pam.d/system-auth in particular, the password entry involving pam_cracklib password requisite /lib/security/$ISA/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 The docs for this pam module may be found in /usr/share/doc/pam-0.77/txts/README.pam_cracklib It also looks like there is a pam module called pam_passwdqc with docs located in /usr/share/doc/pam_passwdqc-0.7.5 which from a quick glance wlll do strength checking. Hope this helps, Sean