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
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