Use this procedure if the defaults do not satisfy your site security requirements. The steps are in the order of the variable entries in the /etc/default/passwd file.
Before You Begin
You must become an administrator who is assigned the solaris.admin.edit/etc/default/passwd authorization. For more information, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .
## /etc/default/passwd ## #MAXWEEKS= #MINWEEKS= MAXWEEKS=13 MINWEEKS=3
#PASSLENGTH=6 PASSLENGTH=8
#HISTORY=0 HISTORY=10
#MINDIFF=3 MINDIFF=4
#MINUPPER=0 MINUPPER=1
#MINDIGIT=0 MINDIGIT=1
See also
For the list of variables that constrain password creation, see the passwd(1) man page.
For the password constraints in effect after installation, see System Access Is Limited and Monitored.