Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 13:34:01 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@tcoip.com.br> To: Michael Carlson <carlson39@llnl.gov> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: login.conf issue Message-ID: <3F200A79.4090705@tcoip.com.br> In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20030724083116.0c382b48@popcorn.llnl.gov> References: <5.1.1.6.0.20030724083116.0c382b48@popcorn.llnl.gov>
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Michael Carlson wrote:
> I am using login.conf to set a minimul password length in the default
> class and root class, after adding :minpasswordlen=8: to default and
> :minpasswordlen=11: to root and then running
>
> $ cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf
>
> I can still use a password of 1 character. This is on FreeBSD
> 5.1-RELEASE i386. I have tried this on a 4.8 system and this works fine,
> did I miss something in the release notes?
I might also add that the same man page says this about these two
capabilities:
RESERVED CAPABILITIES
The following capabilities are reserved for the purposes indicated and
may be supported by third-party software. They are not implemented in
the base system.
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