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authorNiels Provos <provos@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-08-01 22:30:54 +0000
committerNiels Provos <provos@cvs.openbsd.org>2000-08-01 22:30:54 +0000
commit9b7668bc84035435015f2982751fe30ad8582e72 (patch)
treea1813a4d2b4afbd6cd7a7b691d8840d34980e101 /usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1
parent8dc16145ae28c13208c4fc6d5a251494f8f1674c (diff)
talk about password checking
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1')
-rw-r--r--usr.bin/passwd/passwd.16
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1 b/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1
index 0c585e6900c..570c103577c 100644
--- a/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1
+++ b/usr.bin/passwd/passwd.1
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: passwd.1,v 1.11 2000/04/15 11:45:55 aaron Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: passwd.1,v 1.12 2000/08/01 22:30:53 provos Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990 The Regents of the University of California.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ Its total length must be less than
Numbers, upper case letters and meta-characters
are encouraged.
.Pp
+The quality of the password can be enforced by providing an external
+checking program in
+.Xr passwd.conf 5 .
+.Pp
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