Password policies on Trusted System

[Fabio Ettore]

Hello everybody!

I would like to set the following policies on password in a Trusted System environment:

- an user cannot create passwords with the same character repeated three times (e.g. aaa);
- an user cannot create a password with blank spaces.

How to do it?

Helps would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,
Ettore

[Robert-Jan Goossens_1]

Hi Fabio,

I think the answer is the /usr/lbin/modprpw command. Below is a doc with some examples.

http://www5.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000072806664

Hope this helps,

Kind regards and good Easter Holiday :-)

Robert-Jan

[RAC_1]

- an user cannot create passwords with the same character repeated three times (e.g. aaa)

Put in /etc/default/security file. In this file put PASSWORD_HISTORY_DEPTH=x
man 4 security for details.

- an user cannot create a password with blank spaces
/usr/lbin/modprpw -m nullpw=NO "user_name"

Anil

[Fabio Ettore]

Thanks all for your answers.
I'll try your suggestions.
Rob, thanks for doc, it is interesting about my goal.

Best regards...and very very happy EASTER for you! :-)
Ettore

[Darren Prior]

Hi Ettore,

I don't believe that you can easily achieve either of these requirements. The only way round is to create a "black list" of unwanted words (including aaa, bbb, etc) to insert into the dictionary, then turn on password triviality checking.

regards,

Darren.

[Fabio Ettore]

ok