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Date:      Tue, 20 Apr 2004 08:26:29 +0100
From:      Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
To:        Zen <zen8061@zen.co.uk>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Checking New Password
Message-ID:  <20040420072629.GD28812@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20040420071720.GC28812@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <FGECJDEHFNLFJMKMFJEOEENDDCAA.zen8061@zen.co.uk> <20040420071720.GC28812@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>

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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

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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.                       26 The Paddocks
                                                      Savill Way
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