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Re: password & special characters

 
Darren Murray_1
Frequent Advisor

password & special characters

Hi there,

I am running 11.11 os on a non-trusted system.

Is there anyway of disabling having to have special characters in the password?

I have create /etc/default/security and have the PASSWORD_MIN_SPECIAL_CHARS set to 0 or N.

Cheers
Darren
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Pete Randall
Outstanding Contributor

Re: password & special characters

Darren,

There is a note in the man page:

Note: These parameters apply only if the libpam_unix patch PHCO_24606 or later is installed.

Is PHCO_24606 or later installed?


Pete

Pete
Bill Hassell
Honored Contributor

Re: password & special characters

The current patch is PHCO_33215 but PASSWORD_MIN_SPECIAL_CHARS=N only controls the requirement for zero or more, but has no controls for preventing special characters as a choice.


Bill Hassell, sysadmin
Darren Murray_1
Frequent Advisor

Re: password & special characters

Hi Guys,

I have the latest patch installed.

I would have thought this meant that I didnt have to have users use special characters.

Any further suggestions


# more /etc/default/security
PASSWORD_MIN_SPECIAL_CHARS=0
MIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH=0

Thanks
Darren
Ninad_1
Honored Contributor

Re: password & special characters

I guess you are looking for restriction from OS to have atleast N no of special characters - and you want that to set to zero.
Its not that you want users should not be allowed to use special characters but that user of special characters should not be compulsory.
Then whatever you have mentioned is correct.
Also check the patch as mentioned above.
Also see
http://docs.hp.com/en/B2355-60127/security.4.html

Regards,
Ninad
Darren Murray_1
Frequent Advisor

Re: password & special characters

Yes thats correct. I dont want users to have to use special characters in the passwords that they set.
Rodney Hills
Honored Contributor

Re: password & special characters

If you are running with PAM configured, and are using ADS for authentication, then the ADS rules would override any unix rules.

HTH

-- Rod Hills
There be dragons...