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тАО08-25-2005 01:43 PM
тАО08-25-2005 01:43 PM
finding maximum characters for password
How do I find out the maximum number of characters for a user generated password?
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тАО08-25-2005 02:09 PM
тАО08-25-2005 02:09 PM
Re: finding maximum characters for password
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тАО08-25-2005 02:10 PM
тАО08-25-2005 02:10 PM
Re: finding maximum characters for password
Bill Hassell, sysadmin
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тАО08-25-2005 02:42 PM
тАО08-25-2005 02:42 PM
Re: finding maximum characters for password
You can check also the information about password on the manual page of the passwd command :
# man passwd
Hope this information can help you.
Cheers,
AW
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тАО08-25-2005 03:49 PM
тАО08-25-2005 03:49 PM
Re: finding maximum characters for password
/tcb/files/auth/system/default (u_maxlen=12). Is this for system generated password?
However, it seems NOT enforced as I can reset the password to more than 50 characters.
From what you said, "characters beyond 8 are silently ignored".
I tested that with more than 15 characters and it didn't accept the password
even though the first 8 characters are correct.
Under SAM, the security policies stated maximum password length is set to 12
but I understand this operates under system generated password
(not user generated which I'm looking into).
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тАО08-26-2005 01:02 AM
тАО08-26-2005 01:02 AM
Re: finding maximum characters for password
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Aug 26, 2005 03:49:29 GMT N/A: Question Author
It is a trusted system, the limit appears to be defined in
/tcb/files/auth/system/default (u_maxlen=12). Is this for system generated password?"
Correct. Only for system generated passwords.
"However, it seems NOT enforced as I can reset the password to more than 50 characters."
There is a separate file for these settings. It is /etc/default/security and does not exist unless you create it. The settings that will work in this file depend entirely on your security patches. Use the man page for security (man security) to define the available keywords. For user-selected password length there are no controls. A user can enter whatever they want to use. There is a minimum password length however:
MIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH=6
You can also enforce a history (don't re-use old passwords) as well as controlling the UPPERCASE, lowercase, digts and special characters required in a user-generated password.
"From what you said, "characters beyond 8 are silently ignored".
I tested that with more than 15 characters and it didn't accept the password
even though the first 8 characters are correct."
This only applies to non-Trusted systems. Normally, no one will notice this feature until users with long passwords are converted to a Trusted system. The old password remains at 8 characters max b ut under a Trusted system, all characters entered are now significant. Therefore, the user must enter only 8 max to logon to the newly Trusted system.
"Under SAM, the security policies stated maximum password length is set to 12
but I understand this operates under system generated password
(not user generated which I'm looking into)."
Correct.
Bill Hassell, sysadmin