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Provide pam_passwdqc setup example for Linux #19

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In PLATFORMS, we happen to have more specific instructions for some non-Linux systems than we do for Linux. We should similarly add instructions or/and example(s) for common Linux distributions.

Our current:

Most modern Linux distributions use Linux-PAM with a password changing
module which understands "use_authtok".  Thus, you may choose which
module prompts for the old password, things should work either way.

assumes that the reader knows where and how to add pam_passwdqc to the PAM stack, and only needs that specific configuration detail above - but many people reading that don't have such knowledge.

For FreeBSD/DragonFly and OpenBSD, we refer to specific pathnames to make edits to. For many people, that's much more helpful.

For Solaris, we refer to a wiki page, which has instructions and examples. That's also more helpful (than what we have for Linux), although we could want to have our documentation in here more self-contained.

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