Larry Clegg came through very quickly with the answer....he said to make
sure the encryption is set to bigencrypt. You can find this in the
template under security and password options.
Darryl Cook wrote:
> I have Tru64 5.1 running on an Alpha ES40. I am setting up users for
> the first time on this machine and changed the default password lengths
> for user chosen passwords to a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 14. I did
> this through the default template and also tried creating a new
> template. I also checked the /etc/auth/system/default file and it too
> shows the u_minchosen to be 6 and the u_maxchosen to be 14. I created a
> user and through dxaccounts as root can change the password for a user
> to any length from 6 to 14 as expected. However when I as root enter
> passwd <username> it forces me to enter a password from 6 to 8
> characters which was the default before I changed it. If the user tries
> to change their own password they get the same results.
>
> Is there another place where defaults are set? It seems strange that it
> works differently in dxaccounts than at the command line.
>
> darryl
Received on Mon Mar 26 2001 - 17:52:00 NZST