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Remove mention of minimum password length and upper/lower case checking,

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patch supplied by Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com>.  Add xref to
pam_passwdqc(8), where that testing is now done.

PR:		docs/184482
Submitted by:	Ryan Gerstenkorn <ryan_gerstenkorn@fastmail.fm>
Reviewed by:	jilles, eadler
MFC after:	3 days
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wblock 2014-02-14 15:46:06 +00:00
parent 9872b563d1
commit 8d4bcb774d
1 changed files with 3 additions and 19 deletions
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@ -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