Manually Password For Users In Centos
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In this tutorial I will describe how to set password policy like password length, password complexity, password expiration period, deny past used passwords. etc. for CentOS / RHEL based system.
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Note: For this tutorial I am using CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 virtual machines on KVM. Password policy configuration done on CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 machine will be same for RHEL 6 and RHEL 7 as well. Also I suggest before configuring files or executing any password policy configuration commands take backup of configuration files.
Password Policy Configuration in CentOS and RHEL machines
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As mentioned above in this tutorial password policy configurations will contain below topics:
1. Password Length
2. Password Complexity
3. Password expiration
4. Deny past used passwords.
1. Password length configuration
CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
In CentOS 6 or RHEL 6 from root or sudo privileged edit the files /etc/pam.d/system-auth and /etc/pam.d/password-auth through your desire text editor.
Locate the below line in both files and add the parameter minlen=8 at the end of the line.
Below configuration example is from my CentOS 6 machine.
CentOS 7/ RHEL 7
In CentOS 7 and RHEL 7 execute below command for setting up password length:
To verify configured password length after above command execution use below command:
Below sample output is from my CentOS 7 machine.
2. Password Complexity
Password complexity policy allow user to set complex password this policy allow user to use password which contain upper-case character, lower-case character and special or symbol character. In below steps I will configure one upper-case, lower-case, and a special character in the password. You can set any number of maximum allowed upper-case, lower-case, and other letters in your password. So let’s start.
CentOS 6 / RHEL 6
Locate the below line in these files /etc/pam.d/system-auth and /etc/pam.d/password-auth and edit the parameters dcredit=-1 (one digit) ucredit=-1 (one upper-case character) lcredit=-1 (one lower-case character) ocredit=-1 ( one other or sysmbol character):
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Below sample output of these files /etc/pam.d/system-auth and /etc/pam.d/password-auth from my CentOS 6 machine:
CentOS 7 / RHEL 7
In CentOS7 or RHEL 7 we will use same authconfig command to configure complex password.
To set at least one lower-case character for password:
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To set at least one upper-case character for password:
To set at least one digit for password:
To set at least one other or symbol character for password:
To verify password complexity setting after running above command, use below command:
Below sample output from my CentOS 7 machine:
3. Password expiration
Password expiration policy prompt user to change his/her password before certain days of expiration to enforce this policy CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 and CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 has a file /etc/login.defs. This file contain below parameters which allow System Administrator to set policy:
• PASS_MAX_DAYS: Maximum number of days a password may be used.
• PASS_MIN_DAYS: Minimum number of days allowed between password changes.
• PASS_WARN_AGE: Number of days warning given before a password expires.
To enforce this password in these CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 and CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 machines locate the below parameters in /etc/login.defs file and provide number of days as per your requirement:
Below is sample output from my CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 machine:
Note: This above password expiration policy only applicable to newly created users whereas above password expiration policy won’t be applicable to existing user(s) thus you need to set this policy manually to existing user(s) from chage command you can set policy manually:
• To set Maximum password days: chage -M <no. of days> <username>
• To set Minimum password days: chage -m <no. of days> <username>
• To set number of warning days before password expire: chage -W <no. of days> <username>
Sample output:
If you have more then one existing users you can use add those users in text file and with help of for loop command you can set the policy manually below is sample from my machine:
4. Deny past used passwords
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Deny past used passwords policy disallow users to set their password which were used in past. This make password more complicated by making it non guessable for attacker. In both CentOS 6 / RHEL 6 and CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 configuration is same. In both OSes you need to configure these files /etc/pam.d/system-auth and /etc/pam.d/password-auth locate and make below entry:
Sample output:
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