Mary Cortes wrote: >1. How can I enforce a password to contain at least 1 > numeric, 1 alpha, and 1 special character? > >2. How can I lockout a userid after 3 bad attempts at > password > >3. How can I set a login to timeout if a valid userid/pwd > is not entered within 2 minutes?
This is all stuff handled by the PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) mechanism. Unfortunately, PAM is so infinitely configurable that I'm always at a loss trying to find out how to achieve any particular setting ;-( Maybe someone else knows the details, otherwise I can only suggest reading the documentation, starting with 'man pam' and looking under /usr/doc/packages/pam/. Bye, Ulrich -- Dr. Ulrich Weigand [EMAIL PROTECTED]
