Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:26:29 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Zen <zen8061@zen.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Checking New Password Message-ID: <20040420072629.GD28812@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040420071720.GC28812@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <FGECJDEHFNLFJMKMFJEOEENDDCAA.zen8061@zen.co.uk> <20040420071720.GC28812@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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--YToU2i3Vx8H2dn7O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:17:20AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:32:13AM +0100, Zen wrote: >=20 > > Being new to BSD I was wandering if someone can point me in the correct > > direction. I want to let users to change their own passwords. But I d= o not > > want them to use things like cat dog or dictionary names. Could some o= ne > > point me in the correct direction please. I would like to use some thi= ng > > like 6-8 characters with number and upper and lower case letters >=20 > Checkout the security/checkpassword-pam port. >=20 > http://checkpasswd-pam.sourceforge.net/ >=20 Dammit. No, don't bother checking that: it's something different. Doesn't do what you want at all. However, using pam modules to enforce good standards for passwords is the way to go. But I can't see anything appropriate in the ports collection. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --YToU2i3Vx8H2dn7O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAhNCldtESqEQa7a0RAvXZAJ95zaJbBIdCs6LcQYazM3YH/NuOHwCglFOj p1ytyUXi6CQyOuLmDyRp5SI= =gzUo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YToU2i3Vx8H2dn7O--
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