[CentOS] About strongs passwords!

Thu May 12 12:41:20 UTC 2005
Matt Hyclak <hyclak at math.ohiou.edu>

On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 08:35:03AM -0500, israel.garcia at 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?
>

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

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Matt Hyclak
Department of Mathematics 
Department of Social Work
Ohio University
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