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Thursday, February 23, 2012

How to enforce a 14 digit password in Solaris

By default, Solaris sets the password length to around 8 digits. Many IT security departments want at least 14 digit passwords. Longer passwords make the system more secure.

The Solaris 10 OS needs to have the following settings to enforce a 14 digit password.

In /etc/security/policy.conf change the following line from _unix_ to either 1 or md5.
CRYPT_DEFAULT =_unix_ To
CRYPT_DEFAULT =1
In /etc/default/passwd change the password length line from 8 to 14.
PASSLENGTH=8 To PASSLENGTH=14

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2 comments:

  1. RobortWoodsSeptember 3, 2012 at 5:38 AM

    Password maintain is very important,because we are addicted with internet service,e- banking,online service like shopping and many more things.So it is best for us to use a strong and unique combination of letter, number,symbol is more safe than normal written password.

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    1. tonySeptember 25, 2012 at 4:24 PM

      Thank you for posting on my blog. There are more options for this file like you mentioned. I only put this very short how-to, because many Solaris admins like to tell security that setting a password over 8 characters is not possible.

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