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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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14As of this writing (April 2002), FreeBSD-current is moving to OpenPAM
15which pam_passwdqc already includes support for.  The next step would
16be for FreeBSD to start actually using PAM from password changing.
17Once that becomes a reality, you should be able to use pam_passwdqc
18with FreeBSD.
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21	Solaris.
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23pam_passwdqc has to ask for the old password during the update phase.
24Use "ask_oldauthtok=update check_oldauthtok" with pam_passwdqc and
25"use_first_pass" with pam_unix.
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27You will likely also need to set "max=8" in order to actually enforce
28not-so-weak passwords with the obsolete "traditional" crypt(3) hashes
29that most Solaris systems use.  Of course this way you only get about
30one third of the functionality of pam_passwdqc.
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