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Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 19:38:45 +0100
From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: Mark Cohen <logos@csf.edu>
Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Password Policy beyond mixed case
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Mark Cohen wrote:

> I already sent this query to freebsd-questions and received no response. =
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> am hoping someone on this list may help.
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> Is there a setting for login.conf or elsewhere to demand a password polic=
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> stronger than mixed case, such as non-alphanumeric?  If not, can you=20
> suggest good ways/programs to enforce such password policies.

You might look at npasswd.  I've never used it myself, but I've seen it
suggested before...

http://www.utexas.edu/cc/unix/software/npasswd/

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