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Old 03-29-2011, 10:03 AM   #1
shravankumar.bbc
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Hi friends,

Can you please give the solution to maintain more security.

"All passwords must meet the following complexity guidelines:



The password MUST:

Contain eight characters or more
Contain characters from two of the following three character classes:
Alphabetic (e.g., a-z, A-Z)
Numeric (i.e. 0-9)
Punctuation and other characters (e.g., !@#$%^&*()_+|~-=\`{}[]:";'<>?,./)
The password MUST NOT be:

A derivative of the username
A word found in a dictionary (English or foreign)

Please friends for this what changes i have to do in my server.
Thanks in advance....
 
Old 03-29-2011, 10:07 AM   #2
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Im pretty sure that you are going to want to read up on PAM.

http://www.deer-run.com/~hal/sysadmin/pam_cracklib.html
 
Old 03-29-2011, 07:25 PM   #3
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http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/wik...and_Complexity
 
  


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