[SunHELP] Password Policies

[Dale Ghent]

On Aug 30, 2004, at 11:57 AM, Grindell, Joan M. wrote:

> Dale
>
> we're at 2.8
>
> what does 2.9 give us?

Solaris 9 adds that functionality to the passwd command and the PAM 
subsystem.

On solaris 8, unless you code your own PAM authentication tokens 
module, you're limited to password length and password expiration 
parameters.

Solaris 9 adds the functionality to define whether a password is 
alpha-numeric, prevent people from making passwords containing their 
user name, and a minimum difference in characters (so people can't 
change their password from "blahblah1" to "blahblah2" for example) as 
well as a few other features.

See the /etc/default/passwd file for details on the parameters you can 
set.

/dale