PWQUALITY.CONF(5) (NAME) pwquality.conf - libpwquality (SYNOPSIS) /etc/security/pwquality.conf /etc/security/pwquality.conf.d/*.conf (DESCRIPTION) pwquality.conf . libpwquality . name = value ( = ) "#" . (whitespace) "=" . libpwquality *.conf /etc/security/pwquality.conf.d (ASCII) . (override) . (OPTIONS) : difok . (: 1) 0 . minlen ( ). ( pam_pwquality(8) .) 6 . (: 8) dcredit . 0 . (: 0) ucredit . 0 . (: 0) lcredit . 0 . (: 0) ocredit ( ) . 0 . (: 0) minclass ( ). (: 0) maxrepeat . 0 . (: 0) maxsequence . '12345' 'fedcb' . . 0 . (: 0) maxclassrepeat . 0 . (: 0) gecoscheck 3 GECOS passwd(5) . 0 . (: 0) dictcheck ( ) . cracklib . (: 1) usercheck=N ( ) . 3 . (: 1) usersubstr=N 3 ( usercheck) N . (: 0) enforcing=N . pam_pwquality . pwmake(1) pwscore(1) . (: 1) badwords . cracklib . gecos . dictpath cracklib. cracklib . retry=N N . 1 . enforce_for_root root . root . root . local_users_only /etc/passwd . use_authtok . . (SEE ALSO) pwscore(1), pwmake(1), pam_pwquality(8) (AUTHORS) Tomas Mraz Red Hat, Inc. 2025-12-14 PWQUALITY.CONF(5)