[Fed-Talk] RE: How to configure complex password requirements?
[Fed-Talk] RE: How to configure complex password requirements?
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] RE: How to configure complex password requirements?
- From: "Valentine, Ruth Ann B." <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 11:15:04 -0500
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: How to configure complex password requirements?
Use pwpolicy to set each user:
Sudo pwpolicy -a adminname -u username -setpolicy "minChars=12"
I have not got a local machine to take a global policy, so I wrote a little shell script to run on each user after they are created.
You can also use newPasswordRequired=1 to force them to change the password on their first login.
Some of the settings tell them what policy explicitly they are not meeting (minChars is one) others only say it doesn't meet policy, so be sure you are clear when you tell the user what the policy is.
-----Original Message-----
From: fed-talk-bounces+ruthann=email@hidden [mailto:fed-talk-bounces+ruthann=email@hidden] On Behalf Of DeMattia, Edmond G.
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 10:59 AM
To: email@hidden
Subject: [Fed-Talk] How to configure complex password requirements?
How can I configure a 10.6 workstation that's doing local authentication to force users to use complex passwords? I also need to set a minimum of 12 characters. Is there a way to do it natively?
TIA
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