SETTING PASSWORD SECURITY POLICY IN SOLARIS

The Length of the password, Password locking after failed attempts and algoritham used to encrypt the password are define in

# /etc/security/policy.conf

By default in Solaris password length has set to 8 characters. If you set a password with 10
character long 9, 10 are simply ignored.

####### Setting better up a better password in Solaris 10 do the following. ########


# nano /etc/security/policy.conf

change the below lines and save the file


CRYPT_ALGORITHMS_DEPRECATE=__unix__
CRYPT_DEFAULT=2a




The password complexity rules, history, and password-aging defaults are specified
in the

# /etc/default/passwd