minpasswordlen and login.conf not working on 6 or 7 series
Mel
fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net
Wed May 7 21:16:29 UTC 2008
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 23:00:04 Omer Faruk Sen wrote:
> I wanted to set the minimum length of passwords of my users so I
> have done the followings in login.conf
>
> 1) added :minpasswordlen=5:\ to default like:
> Am I missing something here? Or this may be a bug on FreeBSD 6.X and 7.X
You didn't read the login.conf manpage:
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been superseded by the pam_passwdqc(8) PAM module.
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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