Restrict a perticular password

[restrict a perticular p]

Hello

I have HP-UX servers 11.11, 11.23 version and I want to know is there any security settings so taht I can restrict the user to set a perticular passwords.

For example If I want to restrict all users to set the passwords starting with "Anand" is there any settings or is there any polocy we can impose to achieve this.

Any help with this regards will be helpful.

Thanks & Regards
Anand

[Bill Hassell]

For 11.11 and 11.23, you have virtually no control over the password content unless you convert to a Trusted System. Then you'll have the restriction options listed in the man page for security. However, there is no control for a specific string of characters.

[restrict a perticular p]

Thanks a lot for your information Bill,

However is there any perl or shell script for this to restrict. I am not good in scripting so any information will be helpfull.

Regards
Anand

[Dennis Handly]

>However is there any perl or shell script for this to restrict.

I suppose you could write an expect script wrapper.

I'm not sure but perhaps there is a PAM plugin that you could write that would do this but I'm not sure how to start.

>For example If I want to restrict all users to set the passwords starting with "Anand"

(I assume you know this is a bad example since it reduces security.)