This is a very old patch wich we distribute with Samba package in FreeBSD. It just increases the minimal password length from 5 to 6. IIRC, Samba uses des encryption of the passwords and with the length of 5 chars it can be cracked in a few weeks. Well, 6 doesn't change it dramatically, but still a BIT more secure... Just for your consideration...
Created attachment 903 [details] Increase min password length to 6 chars
Since this is a admin controlled value via pdbedit (not that the 'min password length' option has been deprecated in favuot of the account policy). I think making this change would cause more confusion than it is worth. Thanks though.
originally reported against 3.0.11pre1. Moving back to version to 3.0.10 to remove preX and rcX versions.