Man page or keyword search:   man All Sections 1 - General Commands 2 - System Calls 3 - Subroutines, Functions 4 - Special Files 5 - File Formats 6 - Games and Screensavers 7 - Macros and Conventions 8 - Maintenence Commands 9 - Kernel Interface New Commands Server 4.4BSD AIX Alpinelinux Archlinux Aros BSDOS BSDi Bifrost CentOS Cygwin Darwin Debian DigitalUNIX DragonFly ElementaryOS Fedora FreeBSD Gentoo GhostBSD HP-UX Haiku Hurd IRIX Inferno JazzOS Kali Knoppix LinuxMint MacOSX Mageia Mandriva Manjaro Minix MirBSD NeXTSTEP NetBSD OPENSTEP OSF1 OpenBSD OpenDarwin OpenIndiana OpenMandriva OpenServer OpenSuSE OpenVMS Oracle PC-BSD Peanut Pidora Plan9 QNX Raspbian RedHat Scientific Slackware SmartOS Solaris SuSE SunOS Syllable Tru64 UNIXv7 Ubuntu Ultrix UnixWare Xenix YellowDog aLinux   10987 pages apropos Keyword Search (all sections) Output format html ascii pdf view pdf save postscript

pwd_strengthd(1m)					     pwd_strengthd(1m)

NAME
       pwd_strengthd - The sample Password Management Server

SYNOPSIS
       pwd_strengthd [+/-all[_spaces]] [+/-alp[ha_num]]
       [-c[ache_size]] size [-d[ebug]]
       [-m[in_len]] pwd_min_len [-t[imeout]] minutes
       [-v[erbose]]

OPTIONS
       Allow passwords to be all spaces. If this option is not set, the effec‐
       tive registry policy is used.  Disallow passwords to be all spaces.  If
       this  option  is not set, the effective registry policy is used.	 Allow
       passwords to consist only of alphanumeric characters. If this option is
       not  set, the effective registry policy is used.	 Disallow passwords to
       consist only of alphanumeric characters. If this option is not set, the
       effective  registry policy is used.  Specify the number of hash buckets
       in the password cache. The password cache is used  to  store  generated
       passwords  which	 are  retrieved when the password is strength checked.
       The password cache is a hash table with a linked list  for  collisions.
       The  size  should  be  set to a reasonable value based on how large the
       cache will be on average. The default value if not  specified  is  100.
       Run  in	the  foreground.  Log messages are written to standard output.
       Specify the minimum length of a password. If this option	 is  not  set,
       the  effective  registry policy is used.	 Specify the time, in minutes,
       that generated passwords remain in the cache before  they  are  deleted
       from  memory.  If  this option is not specified, the default time is 30
       minutes.	 Runs in verbose mode. More detailed messages are sent to  the
       logfile	$DCELOCAL/var/security/pwd_strengthd.log.  (Use of this option
       is recommended.)

DESCRIPTION
       DESCRIPTION

       pwd_strengthd is a sample Password Management Server.  It  exports  the
       rsec_pwd_mgmt application programming interface.

       pwd_strengthd generates passwords and strength-checks them. It enforces
       the security registry policy for password strength-checking.   Adminis‐
       trators	can override the security registry policy via the command-line
       options (alpha_num, all_spaces, min_len.)

       Administrators can subject principals to password-strength and -genera‐
       tion  policies  by attaching the following ERAs: Specifies the password
       management policy the user must conform to  when	 selecting  passwords.
       Specifies information required in order to connect to the password man‐
       agement server.

       See the OSF DCE Administrator's Guide -- Core Services for more	infor‐
       mation  and examples.  You may want to enhance pwd_strengthd to support
       your site's policies for password strength and generation.

							     pwd_strengthd(1m)

Vote for polarhome