Setting Password Strength with Minimum Lowercase Characters

This section describes the procedure to set a strong password using minimum lowercase characters for each and every server in the topology.

Run the following procedure for each and every server in the topology:

1. Log in as admusr on the server.

   login: admusr
   Password: <current admin user password>

2. Check out the file system-auth and password-auth:

   $ sudo rcstool co /etc/pam.d/system-auth
   $ sudo rcstool co /etc/pam.d/password-auth

3. Run the following commands:

   $ sudo sed -i --follow-symlinks "/pam_cracklib.so/ s/$/ lcredit=-2/" /etc/pam.d/system-auth
   $ sudo sed -i --follow-symlinks "/pam_cracklib.so/ s/$/ lcredit=-2/" /etc/pam.d/password-auth

4. Check in the file system-auth and password-auth:

   $ sudo rcstool ci /etc/pam.d/system-auth
   $ sudo rcstool ci /etc/pam.d/password-auth