Author: wblock (doc committer) Date: Tue Feb 18 03:42:49 2014 New Revision: 262148 URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/262148
Log: MFC r261895: Remove mention of minimum password length and upper/lower case checking, patch supplied by Allan Jude <free...@allanjude.com>. Add xref to pam_passwdqc(8), where that testing is now done. Modified: stable/9/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1 Directory Properties: stable/9/usr.bin/passwd/ (props changed) Modified: stable/9/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1 ============================================================================== --- stable/9/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1 Tue Feb 18 03:39:20 2014 (r262147) +++ stable/9/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1 Tue Feb 18 03:42:49 2014 (r262148) @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" @(#)passwd.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 6, 1993 +.Dd February 14, 2014 .Dt PASSWD 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -59,27 +59,10 @@ The .Nm utility prompts for the new password twice in order to detect typing errors. .Pp -The new password should be at least six characters long (which -may be overridden using the -.Xr login.conf 5 -.Dq minpasswordlen -setting for a user's login class) and not purely alphabetic. -Its total length must be less than +The total length of the password must be less than .Dv _PASSWORD_LEN (currently 128 characters). .Pp -The new password should contain a mixture of upper and lower case -characters (which may be overridden using the -.Xr login.conf 5 -.Dq mixpasswordcase -setting for a user's login class). -Allowing lower case passwords may -be useful where the password file will be used in situations where only -lower case passwords are permissible, such as when using Samba to -authenticate Windows clients. -In all other situations, numbers, upper -case letters and meta characters are encouraged. -.Pp Once the password has been verified, .Nm communicates the new password information to @@ -230,6 +213,7 @@ login class capabilities database .Xr passwd 5 , .Xr kerberos 8 , .Xr kpasswdd 8 , +.Xr pam_passwdqc 8 , .Xr pw 8 , .Xr pwd_mkdb 8 , .Xr vipw 8 _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
