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Re: Password

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Monah Baki wrote:

> I know that OpenBSD is suppose to be extremely secure, but I have this user
> who wants his password to be Petty44, OpenBSD 2.9 replies "use a more
> compilated password", what do I need to do to enter Petty44???

By default, you have to re-enter weak passwords 3 times to have the system
accept it. You can tweak this value using the passwordtries parameter (see
login.conf(5)). One shortfall of this mechanism is that you can't set the
number of tries to "0" because that means "never accept a weak password".

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Aaron Campbell (aaron@monkey.org || aaron@openbsd.org)
http://www.monkey.org/~aaron