Password complexity on Solaris 9

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Hi all,
I'm going to implement password complexity (minalpha, mindigit,
minupper, minlower, passlength and so on...) on my Solaris 9 system.
I've modified /etc/default/passwd file:

MAXWEEKS=
MINWEEKS=
PASSLENGTH=8
MINALPHA=4
MINDIGIT=2
MINLOWER=2
MINUPPER=1
MINDIFF=4

But it works fine only for password length, and seems to ignore the
other parameters. Why? Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance,

Geppox
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Reply geppox 2/15/2005 11:11:45 AM

In comp.unix.solaris Geppox <geppox@infinito.it> wrote:
> I'm going to implement password complexity (minalpha, mindigit,
> minupper, minlower, passlength and so on...) on my Solaris 9 system.
> 
> ...
>
> But it works fine only for password length, and seems to ignore the
> other parameters. Why? Can anyone help me?

AFAIK only PASSLENGTH is supported in Solaris 9, support for the 
extended password complexity tunables came in with Solaris 10.
Compare the passwd(1) man pages on docs.sun.com for more detail.

mp.
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Systems Administrator | Institute for Software Science | Univ. of Vienna
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Reply Martin 2/15/2005 1:14:12 PM


Martin Paul <map@par.univie.ac.at> wrote in message news:<4211f5a4$0$11868$3b214f66@usenet.univie.ac.at>...
> In comp.unix.solaris Geppox <geppox@infinito.it> wrote:
> > I'm going to implement password complexity (minalpha, mindigit,
> > minupper, minlower, passlength and so on...) on my Solaris 9 system.
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > But it works fine only for password length, and seems to ignore the
> > other parameters. Why? Can anyone help me?
> 
> AFAIK only PASSLENGTH is supported in Solaris 9, support for the 
> extended password complexity tunables came in with Solaris 10.
> Compare the passwd(1) man pages on docs.sun.com for more detail.
> 
> mp.

Ops... thanks a lot, you're right.
Bye, Gpx
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Reply geppox 2/16/2005 8:43:30 AM

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