From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 3 5:11:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (ftp.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8BCC37B552 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 05:11:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zeus@tetronsoftware.com) Received: from tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (tetron02.tetronsoftware.com [208.236.46.106]) by tetron02.tetronsoftware.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA18299; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 07:11:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from zeus@tetronsoftware.com) Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 07:11:40 -0600 (CST) From: Gene Harris To: Kuzak Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Password Length In-Reply-To: <200003030819.e238Jjp32583@alpha.dgweb.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Kuzak wrote: > Well don't forget that a password of length 8 that > is case sensitive and allows for special characters > offers something like ~73! permutations which is > damn near close to number of atoms estimated to > be in the universe.. It should be more than adiquate > to simply require your users to not use all one case > or just alphanumeric passwords.. just make them > include at least one special character.. > -Aric > ( My One Cent ) > And, just how do I _make_ them include one special character? I am just now learning about login in classes and I haven't seen anything about enforcing a policy for password complexity? Is there some sort of system setting? Gene [remainder snipped] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message