Oracle 11g Anti-hacker's Cookbook

Enforcing the use of strong passwords and restricting the use of previous passwords

It is essential to establish an effective security policy for Oracle software owner users. In this recipe we will talk about managing complex password rules that can primarily prevent brute force attacks. Restriction of using previous passwords and too similar passwords is an additional security measure which can be implemented to prevent undesired access into the system.

Password rule checking and restriction of the use of previous passwords is performed by Pluggable Authentication Module, or simply known as PAM, discussed in this recipe. In these days PAM is available and used on all major Linux and Unix distributions. The differences in implementation on these ...