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authorWarren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org>2014-02-14 15:46:06 +0000
committerWarren Block <wblock@FreeBSD.org>2014-02-14 15:46:06 +0000
commit639399ae0789e01977c2597da1ef5ef88ac6da2a (patch)
tree0b6057ce461221ddc2a2a05b62dc90c43e7187ab /usr.bin/passwd
parent06e79198cbd1791d10d054de65d7f4e67cd66846 (diff)
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-rw-r--r--usr.bin/passwd/passwd.122
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