PWQUALITY.CONF(5) File Formats Manual PWQUALITY.CONF(5)NAMEpwquality.conf - configuration for the libpwquality library
SYNOPSIS
/etc/security/pwquality.conf
/etc/security/pwquality.conf.d/*.conf
DESCRIPTIONpwquality.conf provides a way to configure the default password quality
requirements for the system passwords. This file is read by the
libpwquality library and utilities that use this library for checking
and generating passwords.
The file has a very simple name = value format with possible comments
starting with "#" character. The whitespace at the beginning of line,
end of line, and around the "=" sign is ignored.
The libpwquality library also first reads all *.conf files from the
/etc/security/pwquality.conf.d directory in ASCII sorted order. The
values of the same settings are overriden in the order the files are
parsed.
OPTIONS
The possible options in the file are:
difok
Number of characters in the new password that must not be present
in the old password. (default 1)
The special value of 0 disables all checks of similarity of the new
password with the old password except the new password being
exactly the same as the old one.
minlen
Minimum acceptable size for the new password (plus one if credits
are not disabled which is the default). (See pam_pwquality(8).)
Cannot be set to lower value than 6. (default 8)
dcredit
The maximum credit for having digits in the new password. If less
than 0 it is the minimum number of digits in the new password.
(default 0)
ucredit
The maximum credit for having uppercase characters in the new
password. If less than 0 it is the minimum number of uppercase
characters in the new password. (default 0)
lcredit
The maximum credit for having lowercase characters in the new
password. If less than 0 it is the minimum number of lowercase
characters in the new password. (default 0)
ocredit
The maximum credit for having other characters in the new password.
If less than 0 it is the minimum number of other characters in the
new password. (default 0)
minclass
The minimum number of required classes of characters for the new
password (digits, uppercase, lowercase, others). (default 0)
maxrepeat
The maximum number of allowed same consecutive characters in the
new password. The check is disabled if the value is 0. (default 0)
maxsequence
The maximum length of monotonic character sequences in the new
password. Examples of such sequence are '12345' or 'fedcb'. Note
that most such passwords will not pass the simplicity check unless
the sequence is only a minor part of the password. The check is
disabled if the value is 0. (default 0)
maxclassrepeat
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)
gecoscheck
If nonzero, check whether the words longer than 3 characters from
the GECOS field of the user's passwd(5) entry are contained in the
new password. The check is disabled if the value is 0. (default 0)
dictcheck
If nonzero, check whether the password (with possible
modifications) matches a word in a dictionary. Currently the
dictionary check is performed using the cracklib library. (default
1)
usercheck=N
If nonzero, check whether the password (with possible
modifications) contains the user name in some form. It is not
performed for user names shorter than 3 characters. (default 1)
enforcing=N
If nonzero, reject the password if it fails the checks, otherwise
only print the warning. This setting applies only to the
pam_pwquality module and possibly other applications that
explicitly change their behavior based on it. It does not affect
pwmake(1) and pwscore(1). (default 1)
badwords
Space separated list of words that must not be contained in the
password. These are additional words to the cracklib dictionary
check. This setting can be also used by applications to emulate the
gecos check for user accounts that are not created yet.
dictpath
Path to the cracklib dictionaries. Default is to use the cracklib
default.
SEE ALSOpwscore(1), pwmake(1), pam_pwquality(8)AUTHORS
Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>
Red Hat, Inc. 2017-05-26 PWQUALITY.CONF(5)
