Summary: Maximum password length for users

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Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 08:08:46 +0200
To: "'Tru64-Unix-Managers (E-mail)" <tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov>

Thanx to John Lanier and Dan Price who nailed it on the head.
The following was required to resolve my problem.

1.
As root: #vi /etc/auth/system/default

Change "u_newcrypt#2" to "u_newcrypt#0"

NOTE: This changes the system-wide default password length.

regards

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Clayton [mailto:paul.clayton@intec.co.za]
Sent: 02 February 2004 15:53
To: 'Tru64-Unix-Managers (E-mail)
Subject: Maximum password length for users

Managers,

Tru64 5.1b

I have enhanced security enabled.
My problem is a user that likes long passwords about 12 chars long, cannot
set his password.
The message he gets back is
"Password must be from 4 to 8 characters long"

Using the command

"usermod -x passwd_max_length=20 passwd_min_change_time=0 my_user"

does not work.

Any ideas?

Regards

Unix like TeePee no windows, no gates, Apache inside.
 Paul Clayton
Global Unix Co-ordinator
Intec Telecom Systems
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