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1Please see the README for instructions common to all platforms and
2descriptions of the options mentioned here.
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5	Linux.
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7Most modern Linux distributions use Linux-PAM with a password changing
8module which understands "use_authtok".  Thus, you may choose which
9module prompts for the old password, things should work either way.
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12	FreeBSD.
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14Currently, FreeBSD doesn't use PAM for password changing.  This means
15you won't be able to use pam_passwdqc with FreeBSD.
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18	Solaris.
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20pam_passwdqc has to ask for the old password during the update phase.
21Use "ask_oldauthtok=update check_oldauthtok" with pam_passwdqc and
22"use_first_pass" with pam_unix.
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24You will likely also need to set "max=8" in order to actually enforce
25not-so-weak passwords with the obsolete "traditional" crypt(3) hashes
26that most Solaris systems use.  Of course this way you only get about
27one third of the functionality of pam_passwdqc.
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