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Pwquality : Set Password Rules
2025/01/03
 

Set Password Rules with [pam_pwquality] module.

[pam_pwquality] is installed by default on RHEL / CentOS Stream even minimum installation,
but if it has not been installed, run [# dnf install libpwquality] to install it.

[1] Set number of days for password Expiration.
Users must change their password within the days.
This setting impacts only when creating a user, not impacts to exisiting users.
If set to exisiting users, run the command [chage -M (days) (user)].
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/login.defs
# line 131 : set password Expiration days (example below means 60 days)

PASS_MAX_DAYS
60
[2] Set minimum number of days available of password.
Users must use their password at least this days after changing it.
This setting impacts only when creating a user, not impacts to exisiting users.
If set to exisiting users, run the command [chage -m (days) (user)].
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/login.defs
# line 132 : minimum number of days available (example below means 1 day)

PASS_MIN_DAYS
1
[3] Set number of days for warnings before expiration.
This setting impacts only when creating a user, not impacts to exisiting users.
If set to exisiting users, run the command [chage -W (days) (user)].
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/login.defs
# line 134 : set number of days for warnings (example below means 7 day)

PASS_WARN_AGE
7
[4] Limit using a password that was used in past.
Users can not set the same password within the generation.
[root@dlp ~]#
authselect current 

Profile ID: local
Enabled features:
- with-fingerprint
[root@dlp ~]#
authselect enable-feature with-pwhistory

[root@dlp ~]#
authselect current 

Profile ID: local
Enabled features:
- with-fingerprint
- with-pwhistory
[root@dlp ~]#
authselect apply-changes

Changes were successfully applied.
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/security/pwhistory.conf
# add the [remember=*] to last line (example below means 8 generation)

remember = 8
[5] Set minimum password length.
Users can not set thier password length less than this parameter.
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/security/pwquality.conf
# line 11 : uncomment and set minimum length (example below means 8 char)

minlen =
8
[6] Set minimum number of required classes of characters for the new password.
(kinds ⇒ UpperCase / LowerCase / Digits / Others)
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/security/pwquality.conf
# line 34 : uncomment and set parameter (example below means 2 kinds)

minclass =
2
[7] Set maximum number of allowed consecutive same characters in the new password.
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/security/pwquality.conf
# line 38 : uncomment and set parameter (example below means 2 char)

maxrepeat =
2
[8] Set maximum number of allowed consecutive characters of the same class in the new password.
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/security/pwquality.conf
# line 43 : uncomment and set parameter (example below means 4 kinds)

maxclassrepeat =
4
[9] Require at least one lowercase character in the new password.
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/security/pwquality.conf
# line 25 : uncomment and set parameter (example below means 1 char)

lcredit =
-1
[10] Require at least one uppercase character in the new password.
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/security/pwquality.conf
# line 20 : uncomment and set parameter (example below means 1 char)

ucredit =
-1
[11] Require at least one digit in the new password.
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/security/pwquality.conf
# line 15 : uncomment and set parameter (example below means 1 char)

dcredit =
-1
[12] Require at least one other character in the new password.
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/security/pwquality.conf
# line 30 : uncomment and set parameter (example below means 1 char)

ocredit =
-1
[13] Set maximum length of monotonic character sequences in the new password.
(ex ⇒ '12345', 'fedcb')
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/security/pwquality.conf
# add to last line (example below means 2 characters are allowed but more than 3 characters are not allowed)

maxsequence = 2
[14] Set number of characters in the new password that must not be present in the old password.
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/security/pwquality.conf
# line 6 : uncomment and set parameter (example below means 5 char)

difok =
5
[15] Check whether the words longer than 3 characters from the GECOS field of the user's passwd entry are contained in the new password.
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/security/pwquality.conf
# line 47 : uncomment and change to enabled

gecoscheck =
1
[16] Set space separated list of words that must not be contained in the password.
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/security/pwquality.conf
# add to last line

badwords = denywords1 denywords2 denywords3
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