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authorTomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>2011-12-06 21:07:55 +0100
committerTomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>2011-12-06 21:07:55 +0100
commitf717780594c26f4c6269f41ae8b987fd2745eec4 (patch)
tree9ca075e17837a9a9e935b6e4ba1f9859f68b4a31 /doc
parentcb78be53487398294025da3f7bf1da5cc46b941a (diff)
downloadlibpwquality-f717780594c26f4c6269f41ae8b987fd2745eec4.tar.gz
Add checks for words from passwd GECOS field and for maximum consecutive characters of same class.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/man/pam_pwquality.816
-rw-r--r--doc/man/pwquality.conf.514
2 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/man/pam_pwquality.8 b/doc/man/pam_pwquality.8
index aead0c3..3c57716 100644
--- a/doc/man/pam_pwquality.8
+++ b/doc/man/pam_pwquality.8
@@ -217,6 +217,22 @@ Reject passwords which contain more than N same consecutive characters\&.
The default is 0 which means that this check is disabled\&.
.RE
.PP
+\fBmaxclassrepeat=\fR\fB\fIN\fR\fR
+.RS 4
+Reject passwords which contain more than N consecutive characters of the
+same class\&.
+The default is 0 which means that this check is disabled\&.
+.RE
+.PP
+\fBgecoscheck=\fR\fB\fIN\fR\fR
+.RS 4
+If nonzero, check whether the individual words longer than 3 characters
+from the
+\fBpasswd GECOS\fR
+field of the user are contained in the new password\&.
+The default is 0 which means that this check is disabled\&.
+.RE
+.PP
\fBuse_authtok\fR
.RS 4
This argument is used to
diff --git a/doc/man/pwquality.conf.5 b/doc/man/pwquality.conf.5
index 0418ff3..8306c2e 100644
--- a/doc/man/pwquality.conf.5
+++ b/doc/man/pwquality.conf.5
@@ -78,6 +78,20 @@ The maximum number of allowed same consecutive characters in the new password.
The check is disabled if the value is 0. (default 0)
.RE
.PP
+\fBmaxclassrepeat\fR
+.RS 4
+The maximum number of allowed consecutive characters of the same class in the
+new password.
+The check is disabled if the value is 0. (default 0)
+.RE
+.PP
+\fBgecoscheck\fR
+.RS 4
+If nonzero, check whether the words longer than 3 characters from the GECOS
+field of the user's passwd entry are contained in the new password.
+The check is disabled if the value is 0. (default 0)
+.RE
+.PP
\fBdictpath\fR
.RS 4
Path to the cracklib dictionaries. Default is to use the cracklib default.