RE: exclude user from password policy?



-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen Carville
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 10:47 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: exclude user from password policy?

Anne wrote:
Sorry, I should have been more clear.

Basically I created a PAM policy to disable accounts after 5
unsuccessful logon attempts. Unfortunately, this included the ROOT
account, which is causing major headaches.

Just wondered if I could exclude the ROOT account in this
PAM policy
from inheriting this disable policy?

pam_listfile maybe?

Agreed, that's a nice generic approach.

She didn't mention which pam module she's using to do the failed login counting. If it's pam_tally, then the default is not to count for root.

Thanks

Anne

-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Manuel Arostegui Ramirez
Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 2:26 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: exclude user from password policy?

El Sábado, 26 de Mayo de 2007 04:37, Anne escribió:
Hi all

Would someone be able to school me on how to exclude ROOT from my
password policies? It's constantly getting disabled by the
policy and
of course I'm constantly having to hack it to get back in.

Thank you for your help.

Anne

Errrrr....what?
What do you mean with your password policies? You mean that sort of
things like password expiration, password minimum lenght
and all that stuff?



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