Summary: Enhanced security, triviality checks

From: Jane Kramer <Jane.Kramer_at_oberlin.edu>
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 18:28:35 -0400

Jane Kramer wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm disappointed to discover how trivial the Triviality Checks under
> Enhanced Security really are, and that the Help available through the
> GUI interface is wrong (Triviality checks don't really force at least 2
> characters and at least one digit or special character in passwords).
>
> I'd like to implement Site Triviality Checks, to enforce stricter rules
> on personally chosen passwords, and make sure that nothing in the GECOS
> field can be used as a password.
>
> I'm finding very little information on how to implement Site Triviality
> Checks, or the /tcb/bin/pwpolicy file. Has anyone done this, and can
> you explain how you've done it, or give pwpolicy examples?

That was my original posting. Only one person responded, but he didn't
have direct information for me. I called the DEC hotline, and after
much searching there, they were able to provide me with a C program that
does defined customer-policy callouts; I haven't had the time to
decipher the program.

I am currently working on my own password-changing program, based
heavily on the example in O'Reilly's "Programming Perl" book, trying to
work into that the ability to reference and update the Enhanced Security
database.

        Jane Kramer

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Jane Kramer                            
Computer Systems Manager, Oberlin College
Jane.Kramer_at_oberlin.edu
440-775-6929
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