Password strength

Jason Antes — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 16:28:02 GMT

That helps a lot. Thanks.

Another question: Is there a way in HP-UX 11 to set different password strengths for differnt users. I want my superusers to be forced to have an 8 character minimum password with at least 2 numbers and 2 special characters while the normal users only need a 6 character minimum password with at least 2 numbers. I can see to set it in the /etc/default security file, but I've only found that it can do it one way or another for every user on the server. Is there a way to do that on a group or individual user basis?

Thanks,
Jason

Re: Password strength

Jeff Schussele — Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:24:12 GMT

Hi Jason,

Haven't tried this before, but set the security file up as you wish & for every user you wish to enforce the policy run

/usr/lbin/modprpw -m usrpick=NO -m rstrpw=YES username

And for every you wish not to enforce run

/usr/lbin/modprpw -m usrpick=NO -m rstrpw=NO username

And let the system generate the PWs.
Don't think you can control this w/o letting the system generate the PW.

Rgds,
Jeff

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