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Set Password Rules
2015/07/23
 
Set Password Rules for security reasons.
[1] Set number of days for password Expiration.
Users must change their password within the days.
This setting impacts only when creating a user, not impacts to exisiting users.
If set to exisiting users, run the command "chage -M (days) (user)".
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/login.defs
# line 25: set 60 for Password Expiration

PASS_MAX_DAYS
60
[2] Set minimum number of days available of password.
Users must use their password at least this days after changing it.
This setting impacts only when creating a user, not impacts to exisiting users.
If set to exisiting users, run the command "chage -m (days) (user)".
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/login.defs
# line 26: set 2 for Minimum number of days available

PASS_MIN_DAYS
2
[3] Set number of days for warnings before expiration.
This setting impacts only when creating a user, not impacts to exisiting users.
If set to exisiting users, run the command "chage -W (days) (user)".
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/login.defs
# line 28: set 7 for number of days for warnings

PASS_WARN_AGE
7
[4] Limit using a password that was used in past.
Users can not set the same password within the generation.
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/pam.d/system-auth
# near line 15: prohibit to use the same password for 5 generation in past

password     sufficient     pam_unix.so sha512 shadow nullok try_first_pass use_authtok
remember=5
[5] Set minimum password length.
Users can not set thier password length less than this parameter.
# set 8 for minimum password length

[root@dlp ~]#
authconfig --passminlen=8 --update
# the parameter is set in a config below

[root@dlp ~]#
grep "^minlen" /etc/security/pwquality.conf

minlen = 8
[6] Set minimum number of required classes of characters for the new password. (kinds ⇒ UpperCase / LowerCase / Digits / Others)
# set 2 for minimum number of required classes of characters

[root@dlp ~]#
authconfig --passminclass=2 --update
# the parameter is set in a config below

[root@dlp ~]#
grep "^minclass" /etc/security/pwquality.conf

minclass = 2
[7] Set maximum number of allowed consecutive same characters in the new password.
# set 2 for maximum number of allowed consecutive same characters

[root@dlp ~]#
authconfig --passmaxrepeat=2 --update
# the parameter is set in a config below

[root@dlp ~]#
grep "^maxrepeat" /etc/security/pwquality.conf

maxrepeat = 2
[8] Set maximum number of allowed consecutive characters of the same class in the new password.
# set 4 for maximum number of allowed consecutive characters of the same class

[root@dlp ~]#
authconfig --passmaxclassrepeat=4 --update
# the parameter is set in a config below

[root@dlp ~]#
grep "^maxclassrepeat" /etc/security/pwquality.conf

maxclassrepeat = 4
[9] Require at least one lowercase character in the new password.
[root@dlp ~]#
authconfig --enablereqlower --update
# the parameter is set in a config below

# (if you'd like to edit the value, edit it with vi and others)

[root@dlp ~]#
grep "^lcredit" /etc/security/pwquality.conf

lcredit = -1
[10] Require at least one uppercase character in the new password.
[root@dlp ~]#
authconfig --enablerequpper --update
# the parameter is set in a config below

# (if you'd like to edit the value, edit it with vi and others)

[root@dlp ~]#
grep "^ucredit" /etc/security/pwquality.conf

ucredit = -1
[11] Require at least one digit in the new password.
[root@dlp ~]#
authconfig --enablereqdigit --update
# the parameter is set in a config below

# (if you'd like to edit the value, edit it with vi and others)

[root@dlp ~]#
grep "^dcredit" /etc/security/pwquality.conf

dcredit = -1
[12] Require at least one other character in the new password.
[root@dlp ~]#
authconfig --enablereqother --update
# the parameter is set in a config below

# (if you'd like to edit the value, edit it with vi and others)

[root@dlp ~]#
grep "^ocredit" /etc/security/pwquality.conf

ocredit = -1
[13] Set maximum length of monotonic character sequences in the new password. (ex ⇒ '12345', 'fedcb')
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/security/pwquality.conf
# add to the end

maxsequence = 3
[14] Set number of characters in the new password that must not be present in the old password.
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/security/pwquality.conf
# add to the end

difok = 5
[15] Check whether the words longer than 3 characters from the GECOS field of the user's passwd entry are contained in the new password.
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/security/pwquality.conf
# add to the end

gecoscheck = 1
[16] Set Ssace separated list of words that must not be contained in the password.
[root@dlp ~]#
vi /etc/security/pwquality.conf
# add to the end

badwords = denywords1 denywords2 denywords3
[17] Set hash/crypt algorithm for new passwords. (default is sha512)
# show current algorithm

[root@dlp ~]#
authconfig --test | grep hashing

password hashing algorithm is md5
# chnage algorithm to sha512

[root@dlp ~]#
authconfig --passalgo=sha512 --update
[root@dlp ~]#
authconfig --test | grep hashing

password hashing algorithm is sha512
 
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