From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 3 6:34:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gold.killercomputing.com (ATHM-216-216-77-156.home.net [216.216.77.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7873937C0ED for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 06:34:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pulcher@killercomputing.com) Received: from popgun (dhcp48.killercomputing.com [199.233.181.48]) by gold.killercomputing.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA20500; Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:34:51 GMT (envelope-from pulcher@killercomputing.com) Message-ID: <005e01bf851e$85a8ab80$30b5e9c7@killercomputing.com> From: "Harold Pulcher - Killer Computing" To: "Gene Harris" , "Kuzak" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Password Length Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 08:41:05 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG there are a number of replacements for the 'passwd' command out there that will 'make' your users use a reasonably secure password. Check out http://www.utexas.edu/cc/unix/software/npasswd/ Harold ----- Original Message ----- From: Gene Harris To: Kuzak Cc: Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 7:11 AM Subject: Re: Password Length > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message