From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 6 13:39:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA25132 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:39:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA25013 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:38:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA28323; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:38:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 13:38:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Malartre cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password:restriction and security in System V In-Reply-To: <35C78885.DF889B82@aei.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Malartre wrote: > I have an old(1991 I think) version of Essential System Administration > (O'Reilly). In that book, they show how to do some minimal restriction > under System V to force people to use good password. > I would like than any person on my FreeBSD box use a minimum of 8 > characters in a password, 3 letter and 2 number minimum, some caps and > some special characters(Which are the special characters allowed?). > Does it's possible, any man page? You'll have to replace the stock system passwd with an improved one. Several are available on the Internet, like passwd+ or epasswd (which is in this month's ;login:.) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message