FUJITSU SPARC ENTERPRISE M4000 User Manual

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setpasswordpolicy(8)

System Administration

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-k

difok

Sets the minimum number of new characters (characters which
were not present in the old password) that a new password must
contain. The initial setting is 3.

Valid values are integers with value of zero or greater.

-l

lcredit

Sets the maximum credit for lower case letters in a password. The
minimum acceptable password length is decreased by one for
each digit in the password, up to lcredit digits.

Valid values are integers with value of zero or greater. The initial
setting is 1.

-M

maxdays

Sets the maximum number of days that a password is valid. This
value is assigned to new user accounts when they are created.The
intial value is 999999.

Valid values are integers with value of zero or greater.

-m

minlen

Sets the minimum size for a new password.

Note –

minlen cannot be set less than 6.

Valid values are integers with value of 6 or greater.

-n

mindays

Sets the minimum number of days between password changes. An
initial value of zero for this field indicates that you can change the
password at any time.

Valid values are integers with value of zero or greater.

-o

ocredit

Sets the maximum credit for nonalphanumeric characters in a
password. The minimum acceptable password length is decreased
by one for each digit in the password, up to ocredit digits.

Valid values are integers with value of zero or greater. The initial
setting is 1.

-r

remember

Sets the number of passwords remembered in the password
history.

The maximum valid value is 10. The initial setting is 3.

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