Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:30:21 -0700 From: Scott Schappell <archon-sender-7e5359@silvertree.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Forcing users to use unique passwords? Message-ID: <20030819203021.GA12492@silvertree.org>
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I've did a google search on this, and an archive search. For an extra measure of completeness, I scanned the handbook. Here's the question: I currently make my users reset their passwords every 90 days. However, nothing stops them from reusing the same password. passwd happily allows users to reuse a password. Since that's the case, what's the point of enabling password expiration, since most users will probably reuse their password (after all, it's convenient to do so). Is there a way to change login.conf to force unique passwords? Or would I have to wrap passwd in a shell script of some sort? Thanks in advance for your help! -- PGP Key: http://archon.silvertree.org/pgp.txt "Compassion and retribution are two sides of the same coin. Necessity dictates on what side the coin will fall."
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