nixCraft » PAM http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips This is a Linux sys admin journal by Vivek about sys admin work, Linux tips & tricks, hacks, news and more. Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:50:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Linux: Prevent From Using Or Reuse Same Old Passwordshttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-linux-prevent-the-reuse-of-old-passwords.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-linux-prevent-the-reuse-of-old-passwords.html#comments Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:11:10 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-linux-prevent-the-reuse-of-old-passwords.html PAM is a flexible mechanism for authenticating users. For example, you do not allow users to reuse recent passwords. This can be accomplished by using the remember option for the pam unix PAM module.]]> http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/how-to-linux-prevent-the-reuse-of-old-passwords.html/feed 3 OpenSSH Root user account restriction – revisitedhttp://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/openssh-root-user-account-restriction-revisited.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/openssh-root-user-account-restriction-revisited.html#comments Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:13:21 +0000 nixCraft http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/openssh-root-user-account-restriction-revisited.html http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/openssh-root-user-account-restriction-revisited.html/feed 19