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exclude user from password policy?

exclude user from password policy?

2007-05-29       - By Furnish, Trever G

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> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: redhat-list-bounces@(protected)
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@(protected)] 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-- --
> > From: redhat-list-bounces@(protected)
> > [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@(protected)]
> > 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 S?bado, 26 de Mayo de 2007 04:37, Anne escribi?:
> >> 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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