Oracle SPARC Enterprise M3000, Reference Manual

Page: 273 / 552

setpasswordpolicy(8)
System Administration 259
-k
difok Sets the minimum number of new characters (characters which
were not present in the old password) that a new password must
contain. The initial setting is
3
.
Valid values are integers with value of 0 - 999999999.
-l
lcredit Sets the maximum credit for lower case letters in a password. The
minimum acceptable password length is decreased by one for each
digit in the password, up to
lcredit digits.
Valid values are integers with value of 0 - 999999999. The initial
setting is
1
.
-M
maxdays Sets the maximum number of days that a password is valid. This
value is assigned to new user accounts when they are created.The
initial value is
999999
.
Valid values are integers with value of 0 - 999999999.
-m
minlen Sets the minimum size for a new password.
Note – minlen cannot be set less than
6
.
Valid values are integers with value of 6 - 999999999.
-n
mindays Sets the minimum number of days between password changes. An
initial value of zero for this field indicates that you can change the
password at any time.
Valid values are integers with value of 0 - 999999999.
-o
ocredit Sets the maximum credit for nonalphanumeric characters in a
password. The minimum acceptable password length is decreased
by one for each digit in the password, up to
ocredit digits.
Valid values are integers with value of 0 - 999999999. The initial
setting is
1
.
-r
remember Sets the number of passwords remembered in the password
history.
The maximum valid value is 10. The initial setting is
3
.