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>--- Vincent van Scherpenseel <mailinglists@vanscherpenseel.nl> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Is it possible to change the password demands set for passwd? In example: if a 
>user enters a password shorter than x characters, it will be rejected. Or, if 
>a user enters a password containing only letters, it will be rejected. I know 
>there are some demands set by default, but they are not forced (users are 
>adviced to choose a different password, but they don't *have* to). Also I 
>would like to change the minimum password length. Is it possible to change 
>this, and if yes, where?
>
>Thanks in advance, Vincent van Scherpenseel
>
>

Hi.

though the list made some work-arrounds, I want to come back to another point. Its more about philosophy of unix in general but I'd like to see NetBSD as a part of it - "Make everything configure-able". I mean that its nice to have standarts ( secure defaults ), and that NetBSD likes standarts, too. But there is no need to force a M$-Unix :) ... . We should implement some functions to passwd-/login-programms so that /etc/login.conf ( or sth. simular ) let administrators configure such things more "regulary". The possibility to configure much more then Wintendo even forced me to switch over to unix systems.

With best regards,

Sascha Retzki

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