From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 00:26:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7699C16A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 00:26:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (ns0.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA2BE43D3F for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 00:26:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1])i3K7QTZV029352 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:26:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)id i3K7QTuc029351; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:26:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:26:29 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Zen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040420072629.GD28812@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Zen , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20040420071720.GC28812@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YToU2i3Vx8H2dn7O" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040420071720.GC28812@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040416, clamav-milter version 0.70g X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: Checking New Password X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 07:26:34 -0000 --YToU2i3Vx8H2dn7O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 08:17:20AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:32:13AM +0100, Zen wrote: >=20 > > Being new to BSD I was wandering if someone can point me in the correct > > direction. I want to let users to change their own passwords. But I d= o not > > want them to use things like cat dog or dictionary names. Could some o= ne > > point me in the correct direction please. I would like to use some thi= ng > > like 6-8 characters with number and upper and lower case letters >=20 > Checkout the security/checkpassword-pam port. >=20 > http://checkpasswd-pam.sourceforge.net/ >=20 Dammit. No, don't bother checking that: it's something different. Doesn't do what you want at all. However, using pam modules to enforce good standards for passwords is the way to go. But I can't see anything appropriate in the ports collection. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --YToU2i3Vx8H2dn7O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAhNCldtESqEQa7a0RAvXZAJ95zaJbBIdCs6LcQYazM3YH/NuOHwCglFOj p1ytyUXi6CQyOuLmDyRp5SI= =gzUo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YToU2i3Vx8H2dn7O--