svn commit: r261895 - head/usr.bin/passwd

[Warren Block]

Author: wblock (doc committer)
Date: Fri Feb 14 15:46:06 2014
New Revision: 261895
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/261895

Log:
  Remove mention of minimum password length and upper/lower case checking,
  patch supplied by Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com>.  Add xref to
  pam_passwdqc(8), where that testing is now done.
  
  PR:		docs/184482
  Submitted by:	Ryan Gerstenkorn <ryan_gerstenkorn at fastmail.fm>
  Reviewed by:	jilles, eadler
  MFC after:	3 days

Modified:
  head/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1

Modified: head/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1
==============================================================================
--- head/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1	Fri Feb 14 15:31:48 2014	(r261894)
+++ head/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1	Fri Feb 14 15:46:06 2014	(r261895)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"	@(#)passwd.1	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd June 6, 1993
+.Dd February 14, 2014
 .Dt PASSWD 1
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -59,27 +59,10 @@ The
 .Nm
 utility prompts for the new password twice in order to detect typing errors.
 .Pp
-The new password should be at least six characters long (which
-may be overridden using the
-.Xr login.conf 5
-.Dq minpasswordlen
-setting for a user's login class) and not purely alphabetic.
-Its total length must be less than
+The total length of the password must be less than
 .Dv _PASSWORD_LEN
 (currently 128 characters).
 .Pp
-The new password should contain a mixture of upper and lower case
-characters (which may be overridden using the
-.Xr login.conf 5
-.Dq mixpasswordcase
-setting for a user's login class).
-Allowing lower case passwords may
-be useful where the password file will be used in situations where only
-lower case passwords are permissible, such as when using Samba to
-authenticate Windows clients.
-In all other situations, numbers, upper
-case letters and meta characters are encouraged.
-.Pp
 Once the password has been verified,
 .Nm
 communicates the new password information to
@@ -230,6 +213,7 @@ login class capabilities database
 .Xr passwd 5 ,
 .Xr kerberos 8 ,
 .Xr kpasswdd 8 ,
+.Xr pam_passwdqc 8 ,
 .Xr pw 8 ,
 .Xr pwd_mkdb 8 ,
 .Xr vipw 8