From owner-freebsd-security Tue Nov 19 12: 9:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5626237B401 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:09:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-146.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8D4743E88 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:09:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B00D66B2C; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:09:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 394829BB; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:11:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:11:06 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Robinson, Rick" Cc: "'security@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Strong Passwords Message-ID: <20021119201105.GA5905@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:26:24AM -0600, Robinson, Rick wrote: > Can anyone suggest what the best way to enforce strong passwords on a > FreeBSD system is? There's a pam_cracklib module floating around somewhere that you can install to enforce strong password security. There are also other similar implementations (I'm pretty sure at least one is in ports, but I couldn't find it with 5 seconds of searching). PAM is definitely the way to go since you won't need to make any code changes or recompile anything. Kris --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE92prZWry0BWjoQKURApSTAJ4xTree/fAd2BeBIq1Ncp0xw0buzwCfd8F7 eE/9RpmWC0wPg8+qUY/HAho= =SacT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message