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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Password last changed Post 302534965 by jtwcarboy on Wednesday 29th of June 2011 08:58:12 AM
Old 06-29-2011
You are right in that if the columns for min and max are not in the shadow file then the policy isnt yet affecting the account. Usually if you have a password policy in place then once the pw is reset those settings would come into play.

You are also right about the 6445 in the shadow file being days since Jan 1 1970.

Alot of applications that help sync passwords from machine to machine may copy the shadow entry for root from one box to another, someone or something may have copied this simply to sync the root pw using like a sed script.
 

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Text::Password::Pronounceable(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation			Text::Password::Pronounceable(3pm)

NAME
Text::Password::Pronounceable - Generate pronounceable passwords SYNOPSIS
# Generate a pronounceable password that is between 6 and 10 characters. Text::Password::Pronounceable->generate(6, 10); # Ditto my $pp = Text::Password::Pronounceable->new(6, 10); $pp->generate; DESCRIPTION
This module generates pronuceable passwords, based the the English digraphs by D Edwards. METHODS new $pp = Text::Password::Pronounceable->new($min, $max); $pp = Text::Password::Pronounceable->new($len); Construct a password factory with length limits of $min and $max. Or create a password factory with fixed length if only one argument is provided. generate $pp->generate; $pp->generate($len); $pp->generate($min, $max); Text::Password::Pronounceable->generate($len); Text::Password::Pronounceable->generate($min, $max); Generate password. If used as an instance method, arguments override the factory settings. HISTORY
This code derived from mpw.pl, a bit of code with a sordid history. o CPAN module by Chia-liang Kao 9/11/2006. o Perl cleaned up a bit by Jesse Vincent 1/14/2001. o Converted to perl from C by Marc Horowitz, 1/20/2000. o Converted to C from Multics PL/I by Bill Sommerfeld, 4/21/86. o Original PL/I version provided by Jerry Saltzer. LICENSE
Copyright 2006 by Best Practical Solutions, LLC. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html> perl v5.10.1 2010-08-16 Text::Password::Pronounceable(3pm)
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