I can not get the min option to work in either 7.10 or 8.04.

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On Jul 31, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 > wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:48:18PM -0000, Chris Bozic wrote:
>> Ok, just to be clear, this is NOT just a documentation bug.  As I  
>> have
>> said above (although not very clearly), the "min" option to pam_unix
>> does not work.  I can have it set to 8 and still add new users with 6
>> character passwords.  While I do agree with you that the "minlen"  
>> option
>> to pam_cracklib is confusing and needs better documentation, there  
>> still
>> seems to be a bug in the code of pam_unix that prevents the "min"  
>> option
>> from working.  I have seen this behavior on both Hardy and Gutsy.
>
> Oh - sorry, which version of Ubuntu are you running?  I know that  
> pam_unix's
> 'min' option is broken in versions prior to 0.99.7.1-4, which would  
> affect
> Ubuntu 7.04 and earlier.  That bug is definitely fixed for Ubuntu  
> 7.10 and
> 8.04 LTS, however.
>
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> world.
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> pam_cracklib 'minlen' option is misnamed and poorly explained
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139999
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