[vchkpw] minimum password length/character combination support?

2014-10-29 Thread Peter Brezny
Dear vchkpw@inter7.com, Is there a way to enforce a minimum length and character combination (letters, numbers, upper case) with vchkpw and if not, are there patches or external applications that integrate well with vchkpw to get this functionality? Sincerely, Peter Brezny Purplecat Networks,

Re: [vchkpw] minimum password length/character combination support?

2014-10-29 Thread Tom Collins
The vchkpw program verifies the password. Are you wondering about the vpasswd program for changing a password? That's an admin program, and wouldn't typically enforce a password change policy. How do your users currently change their passwords? QmailAdmin? Some other program? You would hav

Re: [vchkpw] minimum password length/character combination support?

2014-10-29 Thread pbrezny
Tom, Thanks for the reply. Of course, sorry for the naïve query. Yes we use qmailadmin to allow password changes by end users. And we’ve just found a writeup here: http://mugurel.sumanariu.ro/qmail/qmailadmin-check-if-password-is-strong-enough/ but it seems a little dodgy. There isn’t by

Re: [vchkpw] minimum password length/character combination support?

2014-10-29 Thread pbrezny
Tom, Thanks for the reply. Of course, sorry for the naïve query. Yes we use qmailadmin to allow password changes by end users. And we’ve just found a writeup here: http://mugurel.sumanariu.ro/qmail/qmailadmin-check-if-password-is-strong-enough/ but it seems a little dodgy. There isn’t by

Re: [vchkpw] minimum password length/character combination support?

2014-10-29 Thread Tom Collins
I haven't checked the configuration in some time, so I don't know about minimum password requirements. I did recall this patch on SourceForge to call out to cracklib and require a strong password. If you're comfortable with Javascript, you could modify the change password screen to dynamically

Re: [vchkpw] minimum password length/character combination support?

2014-10-29 Thread Tom Collins
Sorry, forgot the link to the QmailAdmin patch: http://sourceforge.net/p/qmailadmin/patches/28/ -Tom On Oct 29, 2014, at 4:32 PM, Tom Collins wrote: > I haven't checked the configuration in some time, so I don't know about > minimum password requirements. > > I did recall this patch on Sourc