Checking New Password

[Marshall Pierce]

These may be helpful:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/30/FreeBSD_Basics.html
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/01/17/FreeBSD_Basics.html

Marshall

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Marshall Pierce
Harvey Mudd College '06
mpierce at hmc.edu

On Apr 20, 2004, at 12:26 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>> 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 do not
>>> want them to use things like cat dog or dictionary names.  Could 
>>> some one
>>> point me in the correct direction please.  I would like to use some 
>>> thing
>>> like 6-8 characters with number and upper and lower case letters
>>
>> Checkout the security/checkpassword-pam port.
>>
>>     http://checkpasswd-pam.sourceforge.net/
>>
>
> 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
>
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