From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 01:01:24 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 02A1016A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:01:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from turing.cs.hmc.edu (turing.cs.hmc.edu [134.173.42.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF4643D39 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:01:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mpierce@hmc.edu) Received: from [134.173.63.141] (newton.ST.HMC.Edu [134.173.63.141]) by turing.cs.hmc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B26153300; Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:01:23 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) In-Reply-To: <20040420072629.GD28812@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20040420071720.GC28812@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <20040420072629.GD28812@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=sha1; boundary=Apple-Mail-1-1061667489; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature" Message-Id: From: Marshall Pierce Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:01:22 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 cc: Zen cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 08:01:24 -0000 --Apple-Mail-1-1061667489 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed These may be helpful: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2003/10/30/FreeBSD_Basics.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/01/17/FreeBSD_Basics.html Marshall -- Marshall Pierce Harvey Mudd College '06 mpierce@hmc.edu On Apr 20, 2004, at 12:26 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > 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: >> >>> 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 do not >>> want them to use things like cat dog or dictionary names. Could >>> some one >>> point me in the correct direction please. I would like to use some >>> thing >>> like 6-8 characters with number and upper and lower case letters >> >> Checkout the security/checkpassword-pam port. >> >> http://checkpasswd-pam.sourceforge.net/ >> > > 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 > > -- > 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 --Apple-Mail-1-1061667489--