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minimum password length
Name: novicet Date: November 23, 2004 at 13:13:17 Pacific OS: Unix CPU/Ram: 256
Comment:
Hi all,
What is the best way to enforce password of minimum of 8 characters?
I could do that with smit, where it does have an option of setting the length, but we have over one hundred user account, I think it is a bit time consuming.
Name: thepubba Date: November 23, 2004 at 16:29:08 Pacific
Reply:
You don't have to do it for each user. Try looking at the /etc/security/user file. You can change the default stanza "minlen" to 8 characters which will enforce the change at the next password change. I can't test it, but I believe the command is:
chsec -f /etc/security/user -s default -a minlen=8
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Name: novicet Date: November 24, 2004 at 06:01:16 Pacific
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