Re: [Fed-Talk] RE: How to configure complex password requirements?
Re: [Fed-Talk] RE: How to configure complex password requirements?
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] RE: How to configure complex password requirements?
- From: "DeMattia, Edmond G." <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 14:30:41 -0500
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] RE: How to configure complex password requirements?
Specifically, how did you get the 4 character sets to be required? That's
what I'm looking for.
Thanks
On 1/24/11 2:21 PM, "Matthew Smith" <email@hidden> wrote:
>You can do a "man pwpolicy" from terminal to see all the options. I'm
>not sure if all of them work on a standalone. I was able to get the
>following to work on 10.6 standalones: 14-char requirement, 1 upper, 1
>lower, 1 number, 1 symbol. Didn't mess with the expiration, so I don't
>know if that works on standalones.
>
>Matthew
>
>On Jan 24, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Valentine, Ruth Ann B. wrote:
>
>> 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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