From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 13 02:15:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA06174 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 02:15:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from luke.cpl.net ([209.150.92.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA06167 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 02:15:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id CAA04444; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 02:12:50 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 02:12:49 -0800 (PST) From: Shawn Ramsey To: pstewart cc: Greg Lehey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mixed Case Passwords In-Reply-To: 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 > > $ passwd > > Changing local password for grog. > > Old password: > > New password: > > Please don't use an all-lower case password. > > Unusual capitalization, control characters or digits are suggested. > > New password: > > Please don't use an all-lower case password. > > Unusual capitalization, control characters or digits are suggested. > > New password: > > Please don't use an all-lower case password. > > Unusual capitalization, control characters or digits are suggested. > > New password: > > Please don't use an all-lower case password. > > Unusual capitalization, control characters or digits are suggested. > > New password: This is only true with MD5 passwords, which is probably the majority. With DES, all lowercase works just fine. At least on our machines. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message