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author | Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-04-28 07:50:45 +0000 |
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committer | Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@FreeBSD.org> | 2014-04-28 07:50:45 +0000 |
commit | 3b8f08459569bf0faa21473e5cec2491e95c9349 (patch) | |
tree | 80f45dd81ca716bcd7ca9674581e1fc40b93cd34 /usr.bin/passwd | |
parent | 9d2ab4a62d6733c45958627ac113bdbd818d1e2a (diff) | |
parent | b2ba55951383498f252746f618d513139da06e8e (diff) | |
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-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 dbb5a4d0a45c..c3d67f0572d2 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 |