[Wylug-help] Pam Password and obscure

[Roger Leigh]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:27:18AM +0100, Dave Whiteley wrote:
> 
>    password   required   pam_unix.so nullok obscure min=4 max=8 md5
> 
> I have been googling and have failed to discover the paranoia level implied by 
> the use of the "obscure" flag above.

It's actually in the manual (The Linux-PAM System Administrators'
Guide).  See Chap. 6 (A reference guide for available modules), module
pam_unix, password component.

On my Debian system, this is /usr/share/doc/libpam-doc/html/pam-6.html.


Regards,
Roger

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