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looking for guidance on configuring Linux password policy

edited Jul 4, 2023 11:28PM in Linux Operating System (MOSC) 2 commentsAnswered

Running a mix of OL7 and 8 on premise and we are still using the default password policy and have been instructed to configure our servers to adhere to our corporate policy of mandated password changes and password complexities. I'm just not finding a good guide/reference on how to change things like I can see where some of this is defined in /etc/login.defs:

PASS_MAX_DAYS 99999

PASS_MIN_DAYS 0

PASS_MIN_LEN 5

PASS_WARN_AGE 7

I found a reference to chage -l to list details but making a change to login.defs did not seem to be reflected and not that I expected it to be that simple (or did I?) but no change as far as I could tell.

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