Conference turris::digital_unix

9234.0. "passwords without uppercase letters on dUNIX ?" by MUNICH::CUZUM () Thu Mar 20 1997 07:44

Hi, folks,

a customer asks why he can't set a password which doesn't contain
uppercase letters. He runs V3.2 and complains about the man pages of 
"passwd", where DIGITAL only says: "Each password must have at least six
characters and can include digits, symbols, and the letters of your 
alphabet.  It is strongly suggested that you include unusual punctuation, 
control characters, or digits in your password.  Use of only lowercase 
letters is discouraged.  If you enter more than eight characters when 
creating a password, the passwd command ignores any characters after the 
eighth."

"It is strongly recommended" does not mean that it's interdicted to do
it otherwise. (?)

The customer works with BASE security and wants to know if he has any
chance of using passwords without uppercase letters.

Can anyone help me with this?

Regards,

Corina

	...just try it four times and it starts to believe
	that you REALLY want lower case password ;-)

		-jari

$ passwd
Changing password for web.

New password:
Please don't use an all-lower case password.
Unusual capitalization, control characters or digits are suggested.
New password:
Please don't use an all-lower case password.
Unusual capitalization, control characters or digits are suggested.
New password:
Please don't use an all-lower case password.
Unusual capitalization, control characters or digits are suggested.
New password:
Retype new password:
Hashed database not in use, only /etc/passwd text file updated.

$

	Forgot:

	If your customer doesn't accept .1, it is
	pretty straightforward to take crypt(3) and
	build the password fields from own program...

		-jari