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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!feed1.news.erols.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Looking for better passwd program Date: 23 Oct 1996 19:14:09 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 25 Message-ID: <54lqq1$q1p@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3263F096.41C67EA6@jnet.vi> <5496cg$c8@uriah.heep.sax.de> <326CB9D8.41C67EA6@jnet.vi> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi> wrote: > The "npasswd" program did two things: > > 1. allows the setting of password policies (length etc). > 2. disallowed "dumb" passwords Ah, ok, so this seems like a good item for the ports collection. > One other thing I would like to see that the FreeBSD passwd program > doesn't seem to do is authentication logging (I would like to see > who has or has not changed their password). Not a fully replacement for this, but you already get this in the default /etc/security reports. Of course, you see it only once and cannot track it later. Adding a syslog() somewhere inside passwd(1) should be trivial though. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)