On 5/12/05, israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu <israel.garcia at cimex.com.cu> wrote: > 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? Check out this page: http://www.puschitz.com/SecuringLinux.shtml#EnforcingStrongerPasswords Excellent information on _exactly what you are looking for there. That section applies to what you are looking for, but the article as a whole is wonderful as well. Thanks, Ryan