password and rules

[cazabat_1]

What is the way to have all the passwords on hp-ux 11.0 with :
- 5 alphabetics
- 2 numerics or specials

[A. Clay Stephenson]

It depends. If you are running a trusted system then you have several choices for password construction. Man passwd for details BUT if you are not running a trusted system then your only option for non-standard password construction rules is to build and install a custom passwd program. It's not difficult but it does require a bit of coding skill.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

I don't think so.

The standard requirement is 6 characters.

Special cahracters don't work well in passwords,some of them won't work.

You might want to make your system trusted which can be done in sam.

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