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| author | Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> | 2012-12-20 16:19:19 +0100 |
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| committer | Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> | 2012-12-20 16:19:19 +0100 |
| commit | 76397905e2753dca334ba825255a340ded0461df (patch) | |
| tree | b5a69d0a1862079fd4bcbc7d06e11e33499b9f3f /doc | |
| parent | ae879704fb83d8eefdfab07689de164a90fcbf46 (diff) | |
| download | libpwquality-76397905e2753dca334ba825255a340ded0461df.tar.gz | |
Clarify that some checks in pam_pwquality are not applicable to root.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/man/pam_pwquality.8 | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man/pam_pwquality.8 b/doc/man/pam_pwquality.8 index b21babc..3933143 100644 --- a/doc/man/pam_pwquality.8 +++ b/doc/man/pam_pwquality.8 @@ -261,7 +261,8 @@ By default the list is empty which means that this check is disabled\&. The module will return error on failed check even if the user changing the password is root\&. This option is off by default which means that just the message about the failed check is printed but root can change -the password anyway\&. +the password anyway\&. Note that root is not asked for an old password +so the checks that compare the old and new password are not performed\&. .RE .PP \fBlocal_users_only\fR |