How to enforce password complexity on Solaris

Solaris 10 is the first version of Solaris to provide a complex set of variables for controlling password strength. The /etc/default/passwd file contains a series of parameters — most commented out when a system is first installed — that allow you to exercise some fairly rigorous constraints on the passwords your users may select.

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