From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 12 21:29:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E311516B02B for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 21:29:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from smurphy@calarts.edu) Received: from muse2.calarts.edu (muse2.calarts.edu [198.182.157.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C40E43DAC for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 21:28:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from smurphy@calarts.edu) Received: from [198.182.157.171] (not-in-use.calarts.edu [198.182.157.171] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by muse2.calarts.edu (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k4CLSFKT085111 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 12 May 2006 14:28:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smurphy@calarts.edu) Message-ID: <4464FE0B.4050509@calarts.edu> Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 14:28:43 -0700 From: Sean Murphy User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Macintosh/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 198.182.157.28 Subject: How to require minium length passwords X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 21:29:22 -0000 I am trying to require users to put in 8 character passwords but as it stands it will take 1 just fine. I Tried messing with the login.conf file but it still looks like it accepts 1 character as an acceptable password. here is what i did. Also will this restrict other programs to the set minimum or can they just set the password to what there parameters dictate? such as usermin password change util. added this under default :minpasswordlen=8:\ ran the data base cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf