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Conference gyro::internet_server

Title:	Internet AlphaServer

Moderator:	GYRO::HOLOHAN

Created:	Wed Dec 14 1994
Last Modified:	Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	218
Total number of notes:	761

211.0. "IAS and C2 password character set and lgt ?" by LEMAN::GABLER () Fri Mar 07 1997 05:59

	Hi,

I use IAS on an Digital-Unix ASE cluster with C2 enhenced security.

I noticed that there are a couple of thing i can control using XSysAdmin
and XIsso about the password length and so on, but there are also a couple
of thing that are fixed by IAS itself when creating cluster users.

Can someone give me the exact rules concerning the username and password
lenght and character set. in that mixed environment.

Thanks
	Clark

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211.1 ZEKE::ranger.zko.dec.com::dilsworth Keith Dilsworth Mon Mar 10 1997 15:10 17

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211.1		ZEKE::ranger.zko.dec.com::dilsworth	Keith Dilsworth	`Mon Mar 10 1997 15:10`	17
	IAS account creation requires 8 or more characters of which one must be something other than a lower case character a-z. Digital UNIX requires 6 or more characters of which one must be something other than a lower case character a-z. If you are running C2 security there is a default max limit of a 10 characters passwords in /bin/passwd. I understand this can be changed. I suppose you could set a minimum passwd length that would exceede the IAS maximum. The new user account creation for IAS (V3.2) only supports D-UNIX V4.0B and later. I wrote the perl script to create the user and it doesn't use /bin/passwd. The perl script doesn't care about the length of the password. The CGI interface sets the size limit. It should support 16 or more chacters with the same restriction on all lower case. Keith

IAS account creation requires 8 or more characters of which one must 
be something other than a lower case character a-z.

Digital UNIX requires 6 or more characters of which one must be 
something other than a lower case character a-z.  If you are running 
C2 security there is a default max limit of a 10 characters passwords 
in /bin/passwd.  I understand this can be changed.  I suppose you 
could set a minimum passwd length that would exceede the IAS maximum.

The new user account creation for IAS (V3.2) only supports D-UNIX 
V4.0B and later.  I wrote the perl script to create the user and it 
doesn't use /bin/passwd.  The perl script doesn't care about the 
length of the password.  The CGI interface sets the size limit.  It 
should support 16 or more chacters with the same restriction on all 
lower case.

Keith