Help with PAM please.

shanie · Newbie Joined: Jan 02, 2010 Posts: 5

Hi

I am wondering if someone can help me with:

How do i configure PAM to log in without authentication on the console, with password in the display manager (X window)

And the password must be 10 character long, and at least 3 capital letter
and 2 figure.

Any idea how i do this?

Can someone also explain how pam works?

Thanks

tripwire45 · Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 2:03 pm Post subject:

Greetings and welcome. This isn't my area of expertise but I found a general PAM document via Google:

http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/User-Authentication-HOWTO.html

Don't know if this will help, but I hate to see questions posted without at least an attempt to answer.

-Trip
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ffreeloader · Master Joined: Aug 10, 2005 Posts: 561

I don't provide specific help for homework assignments. My suggestion is to read the the documentation in configuration files for the PAM modules. In Debian that is found in /etc/pam.d.

I'd also recommend the documentation for each of the modules found in /usr/share/doc/pam_module_name.

Here's a link to the PAM administrator's guide too. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/Linux-PAM-html/Linux-PAM_SAG.html

shanie · Newbie Joined: Jan 02, 2010 Posts: 5

thank you for all replies, you are right it is kind of a home work
and i have read som documents about pam, but i still can't find what i am looking for. i am not asking you guys to the work for me i am just asking for some help how to start.

i am going to tell you guys what i want to accomplish, i am trying to srt up pam.

first i want to log in to the command promt but i only want to type my username without the password.

2. then when i am logging in the x window the common way it should prompt me for the username and the password.

thanks again matesv