Message: 5 Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 08:41:20 -0400 From: Matt Hyclak hyclak@math.ohiou.edu Subject: Re: [CentOS] About strongs passwords! To: centos@centos.org Message-ID: 20050512124120.GB5989@math.ohiou.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 08:35:03AM -0500, israel.garcia@cimex.com.cu enlightened us:

List, It's amazing the soon the messages on this list are answered, I

am

glad and I want to thank you all for that...

Here is my question, I have a DataBase CentOS server working with

about

150 users connected via ssh, so I want to set up for all users strongs passwords, I mean, 8 or more caracters, with ,.;* , ect....... Is

there

some option, bash command which do that?

Great, but:

1. My users have to work on the shell because, they run a C++ scritp to work in tha database.. 2. So I want to force my users to pick a strong password.. Is there some command, tool to do this?

Regards, Israel

The mkpasswd command included in the expect RPM can generate them for you. A little shell scripting will change the passwords for the users.

Matt