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Date:      Sat, 13 May 2006 09:46:32 -0400
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to require minium length passwords
Message-ID:  <44y7x682br.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <4464FE0B.4050509@calarts.edu> (Sean Murphy's message of "Fri, 12 May 2006 14:28:43 -0700")
References:  <4464FE0B.4050509@calarts.edu>

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Sean Murphy <smurphy@calarts.edu> writes:

> 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.

I think the normal way to enforce that is via PAM.  
I don't use it myself, but I think pam_passwdqc(8)
is what you need.



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