Nagios password enforcement

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ericosman
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Nagios password enforcement

Post by ericosman »

Hi,

Is is possible to let Nagios users have only stong passwords?
So it will not be able to have
abc123
but it has to be to like
Q28fjF#%
?
abrist
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Re: Nagios password enforcement

Post by abrist »

Well, nagios uses htpasswd by default. So I do not think so. Maybe there is a PAM module to force better passwords, but really, as the password is created on the cli, the admin should have control over this anyways.
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