Minimum password length.

[jh_yang]

Hi, all:
I turned my HP-UX 11.00 to Trusted System. Now I wanna setup the minimum password length to 8 characters. At the same time I wanna the user could pick up their own password instead of generating by the OS. Is that a way to do so?

Best Regards
David Yang

[someone_4]

In sam under Users and Groups
highlight the user. Tab over to action and pick Modify User's Security Policies. Then Password Format Policies here you have all of your settings that can be set. I dont know if there is anywhere else to modify settings. And the user with the command passwd can make their own password.

Richard

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Hi ,

Easy way to setup this is using SAM

Auditing and Security>> system Security policies.

Good Luck,

-USA..

[Sanjay_6 · Accepted solution]

Hi David,

Take a look at the thread below,

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/cki/bin/doc.pl/sid=aa103bab141910ee25/screen=ckiDisplayDocument?docId=200000056988414

Hope this helps.

Regds

[jh_yang]

I installed the newest patch on my server which is PHCO_25527. But there is no /etd/default/security file exists on my server. What's wrong with that?

[Sanjay_6]

Hi David,

create a file called /etc/default/security, if it does not already exist, and make it world readable and root write-able.

Add the following line to the file:
MIN_PASSWORD_LENGTH=8

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Bill Hassell]

The man page for the security file has apparently been omitted in some patches, so get the details from docs.hp.com by searching for /etc/default/security. The man page is present on 11i as: man security

You'll also find 11.0 details in the Release Notes for 11.0.