:Tip of the Trade: Setting Password Policy With PAM
Tip of the Trade: Setting Password Policy With PAM Sep 15, 2008, 23 :32 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (6536 reads) (Other stories by Juliet Kemp)
"The credit system involves giving "length credits" for using non-lowercase characters (so you can have a shorter password than the minimum length if it uses non-lowercase characters), but this can be confusing for users, so it may be best to just require certain types of character."