Re: Solaris 8 username contingency

From: Mike D. Kail (mdkail@verance.com)
Date: 06/25/02 

To: "Scott Morris" <hexjunky@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 15:51:26 -0700
From: "Mike D. Kail" <mdkail@verance.com>

On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 17:22:31 EDT, "Scott Morris" wrote:
> pavango22@email.com wrote:
>
> >due to certain difficulties i need to change this default to 15 charecters.
> >there is a file in which i have to make some changes. which one is
> >it?
>
> /etc/default/passwd Default values can be set for the following flags
> in /etc/default/passwd.
> PASSLENGTH Minimum length of password, in characters.

bug, if you read the fine man page, you'll see that:

        o Each password must have PASSLENGTH characters, where
           PASSLENGTH is defined in /etc/default/passwd and is
           set to 6. Only the first eight characters are signifi-
           cant.

/mdkail