pam (0.99.7.1-5) unstable; urgency=low * Default Unix minimum password length has changed Previous versions of pam_unix on Debian had a built-in minimum password length of 1 character, and a minimum password length configured in /etc/pam.d/common-password of 4 characters. This differed from the upstream default of 6 characters. This has been changed, so the default /etc/pam.d/common-password no longer overrides the compile-time default and the compile-time default has been raised to 6 characters. If you are using pam_unix but are not using the default /etc/pam.d/common-password file, it is recommended that you drop any min= options to pam_unix from your config unless you have stronger local password requirements that the upstream default. The password length 'max' option has also been deprecated in this version because it was never written to work as suggested in the documentation. If you are using pam_unix but are not using the default /etc/pam.d/common-password file, you should remove any old max= options to pam_unix from your config as this option will be considered an error in future versions of pam. -- Steve Langasek Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:27:11 -0700