[2829] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RedHat 4.0; misc ideas
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Elliot Lee)
Tue Nov 5 16:20:18 1996
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 16:17:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>
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On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, Chris Evans wrote:
> 5) Get shadow running by default :-) And remove the annoying 8 character
> password limit, the MD5 password extension to the latest shadow-utils is
> nice. I also very much like the ability in the shadow package, to dish
> out certain supplementary groups to people logging in at the console, eg,
> floppy, audio etc.
You can do this with PAM, by using the pam_groups module in /etc/pam.conf,
and editing /etc/security/group.conf
> Nice for security. Additionally CHFN_RESTRICT is a
> valuable option.
You can do this too with PAM, by editing the chfn section of /etc/pam.conf
> 6) Take a long, hard look at the following packages: Checker (better than
> ElectricFence if I could get it to work properly!), jazz, gimp.
There is a gimp rpm in contrib, I think.
-- Elliot
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