Setting up Password Security in AIX 5.3

UNIX AIX
1

In AIX 5.3 tech level 11:

I want to setup a default password policy to have at least one
of each of the following: alpha character, numeric character, and "special"
character ("!", "&", etc).

The smitty Security and Users --> Passwords --> System Password
Policy screen only offers "MIN ALPHA characters" and "MIN OTHER
characters".

Is there a way to do what I want to do?
Thanks

2

I'm thinking you want to use:

Password CHECK METHODS

I just don't know how.

3

AIX cannot require a special character, but you can specify some other parameters. Look at the top of the /etc/security/user file and you can see some descriptions of what you are able to set. These would take care of a couple of you items:

* minalpha      Defines the minimum number of alphabetic characters in a
*               password. The default is 0.  Range: 0 to 8.
* minother      Defines the minimum number of non-alphabetic characters in a
*               password.  The default is 0.  Range: 0 to 8.