On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Jeff Poling <[email protected]> wrote:

> On a standard build of RHEL 4/5 (not SELinux), is there a way to specify
> password policy for local accounts such as root?
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> Thanks,
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> Jeff
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> *Jeffrey Poling*
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For non-root use cracklib. Root is able to override any of these policies,
which is by design. People that have root account should be able to comply
with password policies.
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