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- Path: sparky!uunet!news.centerline.com!franl
- From: franl@centerline.com (Fran Litterio)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Password without special characters?
- Date: 16 Dec 92 13:36:10
- Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
- Lines: 55
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <FRANL.92Dec16133610@draco.centerline.com>
- References: <9212141231.PN16455@LL.MIT.EDU> <1gnrmvINNt68@hpscit.sc.hp.com>
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- In-reply-to: dave@hpdstma.ptp.hp.com's message of 16 Dec 1992 18:14:55 GMT
-
- dave@hpdstma.ptp.hp.com (Dave Waller) writes:
-
- > killoran@ll.mit.edu (Mike Killoran) writes:
-
- > |> Is there a way around HP's requirement that all passwords
- > |> have a number or special character in them?
-
- > The only way to enter a password without restriction is to do it as root.
- > This is a standard security feature that one will find on almost any UNIX
- > variant, although some do allow non-root users to set passwords without
- > restrictions.
-
- The man pages for yppasswd(1) on my HP-UX 8.07 and 9.0 systems (both
- Series 700s) say this:
-
- Checks occur to ensure that
- the new password meets the following construction requirements.
-
- + Only the first eight characters are significant.
-
- + A password can be as few as four characters long if it
- contains
-
- + at least one special character or
-
- + a mixture of numeric, uppercase and lowercase letters.
-
- + A password can be as few as five characters long if it
- contains a mixture of
-
- + uppercase and lowercase letters or
-
- + numeric and either uppercase or lowercase letters.
-
- + A password must contain at least six characters if it contains
- only monocase letters.
-
- All these rules except the first are relaxed if you try three times to
- enter an unacceptable new password. You cannot, however, enter a null
- password.
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