password length default install

[Greg Barniskis]

Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> What is the password lenght one may use at login? I didn't change the
> defaults on my fbsd-4.11 (login passwd md5 ??)
> 
> I remember linux had as default some eight chars or so. I want to use
> more chars for some accounts. Can I safely use 10-12 chars?
> 

# man passwd          (4.x)

The new password should be at least six characters long (which may 
be overridden using the login.conf(5) ``minpasswordlen'' setting for 
a user's login class) and not purely alphabetic.  Its total length 
must be less than _PASSWORD_LEN (currently 128 characters).


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