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| author | Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-02-14 15:46:06 +0000 | 
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| committer | Warren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-02-14 15:46:06 +0000 | 
| commit | 639399ae0789e01977c2597da1ef5ef88ac6da2a (patch) | |
| tree | 0b6057ce461221ddc2a2a05b62dc90c43e7187ab | |
| parent | 06e79198cbd1791d10d054de65d7f4e67cd66846 (diff) | |
Notes
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1 | 22 | 
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1 b/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1 index dbb5a4d0a45c4..c3d67f0572d24 100644 --- a/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1 +++ b/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1 @@ -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  | 
