Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 00:23:54 +0300 From: "Omer Faruk Sen" <omerfsen@gmail.com> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minpasswordlen and login.conf not working on 6 or 7 series Message-ID: <75a268720805071423v44b3450cj65c36e1af70c4a5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200805072316.26068.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <75a268720805071400o2eb75c54y77c11790407cf045@mail.gmail.com> <200805072316.26068.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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Actually I have read it but haven't read all the man pages because even in 7.0 manual page for login.conf still have: minpasswordlen number 6 The minimum length a local password may be. I think that line should be removed from manual page too. Regards, thanks for the fast reply. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote: > 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 been superseded by the pam_passwdqc(8) PAM module.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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