PAM guru help to interpret system-auth password-auth RHEL 7
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I have a RHEL 7.9 system which currently has identical
system-auth
and password-auth
files located under /etc/pam.d/
. That file is
auth required pam_faillock.so preauth audit deny=3 even_deny_root fail_interval=900 unlock_time=900
auth sufficient pam_unix.so try_first_pass
auth [default=die] pam_faillock.so authfail audit deny=3 even_deny_root fail_interval=900 unlock_time=900
auth required pam_env.so
auth required pam_faildelay.so delay=2000000
auth sufficient pam_unix.so try_first_pass
auth requisite pam_succeed_if.so uid >= 1000 quiet_success
auth required pam_deny.so
account required pam_faillock.so
account required pam_unix.so
account sufficient pam_localuser.so
account sufficient pam_succeed_if.so uid < 1000 quiet
account required pam_permit.so
#password requisite pam_pwquality.so local_users_only retry=3 minlen=12 gecoscheck maxrepeat=3
password requisite pam_pwquality.so local_users_only retry=3 gecoscheck maxrepeat=3
password required pam_pwhistory.so remember=5 use_authtok
password sufficient pam_unix.so sha512 shadow use_authtok
password required pam_deny.so
session optional pam_keyinit.so revoke
session required pam_limits.so
-session optional pam_systemd.so
session [success=1 default=ignore] pam_succeed_if.so service in crond quiet use_uid
session required pam_unix.so
- can someone explain in understandable English what all is really happening?
- is there any bad or incorrect items?
- is the minlen=12
and maxrepeat=3
of any purpose when they are defined in /etc/security/pwquality.conf
{ and /etc/login.defs
for minlen } ?
Asked by ron
(8647 rep)
Oct 28, 2021, 07:19 PM