Quiz: logins and passwords

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Password policy (pwquality) and login lockout (faillock) in PAM, the pwscore password rating, a fail2ban jail — the record source (backend, journalmatch), the threshold (maxretry, findtime) and the ban. The questions follow the lessons “PAM: password policy and lockout” and “Password brute force and fail2ban”.

9 questions · threshold 70%

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On a fresh system a user changed their own password to the dictionary word `password`, and passwd answered `password updated successfully`. Why was it accepted?

root changed the password, and the policy does not apply to it.
An eight-letter password is long enough, and that is what matters for strength.
No quality check was added to the stack — pam_unix catches only crude flaws.

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Quiz: logins and passwords

On a fresh system a user changed their own password to the dictionary word password, and passwd answered password updated successfully. Why was it accepted?

On a fresh system a user changed their own password to the dictionary word `password`, and passwd answered `password updated successfully`. Why was it accepted?