login.conf issue

[Daniel C. Sobral]

Michael Carlson wrote:
> I am using login.conf to set a minimul password length in the default 
> class and root class, after adding :minpasswordlen=8: to default and 
> :minpasswordlen=11: to root and then running
> 
> $ cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf
> 
> I can still use a password of 1 character. This is on FreeBSD 
> 5.1-RELEASE i386. I have tried this on a 4.8 system and this works fine, 
> did I miss something in the release notes?

login.conf(5):

      The minpasswordlen and minpasswordcase facilities for enforcing 
restric-
      tions on password quality, which used to be supported by 
login.conf, have
      been superseded by the pam_passwdqc(8) PAM module.

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