08-21-2005
Unique String
Hi,
While creating users in one of my application, the passowrd for the user has to obey the following rules.
password cannot be the same as the user name
password must have a minimum of six characters
password must have a maximum of 100 characters
password must have at least one alpha character
password must have at least one numeric character.
password cannot contain two consecutive equal alphabets (aa)
I am creating users using a script and generating random string for the password. But the last rule worries me. How can we check the passowrd to find out if there are two consecutive alphabets(Rule 6)???
Thanks in advance
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LEARN ABOUT REDHAT
shadow
SHADOW(5) File Formats Manual SHADOW(5)
NAME
shadow - encrypted password file
DESCRIPTION
shadow contains the encrypted password information for user's accounts and optional the password aging information. Included is
Login name
Encrypted password
Days since Jan 1, 1970 that password was last changed
Days before password may be changed
Days after which password must be changed
Days before password is to expire that user is warned
Days after password expires that account is disabled
Days since Jan 1, 1970 that account is disabled
A reserved field
The password field must be filled. The encryped password consists of 13 to 24 characters from the 64 character alphabet a thru z, A thru
Z, 0 thru 9, . and /. Refer to crypt(3) for details on how this string is interpreted.
The date of the last password change is given as the number of days since Jan 1, 1970. The password may not be changed again until the
proper number of days have passed, and must be changed after the maximum number of days. If the minimum number of days required is greater
than the maximum number of day allowed, this password may not be changed by the user.
An account is considered to be inactive and is disabled if the password is not changed within the specified number of days after the pass-
word expires. An account will also be disabled on the specified day regardless of other password expiration information.
This information supercedes any password or password age information present in /etc/passwd.
This file must not be readable by regular users if password security is to be maintained.
FILES
/etc/passwd - user account information
/etc/shadow - encrypted user passwords
SEE ALSO
chage(1), login(1), passwd(1), su(1), passwd(5), pwconv(8), pwunconv(8), sulogin(8)
AUTHOR
Julianne Frances Haugh (jockgrrl@ix.netcom.com)
SHADOW(5)