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October 8, 2003 at 12:05 PM
michael mahan

Password Security in Solaris 8

by michael mahan . Updated 22 years, 8 months ago

Is there any way to limit user to selecting a password with thefollowing limitations:
1. Mixture of upper and lower case letters
2. At least one number
3. At least one special character
4. no more than 2 repeated characters
5. not a variation of the username.

In HP-UX and AIX, we are able to do it, but Solaris does not have any way to limit the content of the password. The file “/etc/default/passwd” does allow us to limit password age and minimum length, but that is it.

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