On 11/11/09 13:19, Klistvud wrote: > Dne, 10. 11. 2009 22:33:23 je Michael Young napisal(a): >> 1. How can I use the gnome gui to set the minimum acceptable password >> length to 8 for new user accounts. >> > In my humble experience, it depends on your distro. I'm on Debian which > generally overrides any security settings that you could set in Gnome. > Thus, adding new users or deleting old ones never worked in my Gnome, > it only ever worked if set on the command line. Now, about specifically > setting the password length -- I don't remember ever seeing a Gnome GUI > applet for doing that. I may be wrong, of course. I suspect the place to achieve this is in the configuration of pam_cracklib. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus@therning.org Jabber: magnus@therning.org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe
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