Minimum length of pwd in keytool

Question

I'm using keytool (jdk version 1.5.0_14) to alter exisiting keystores and create new files. If I want to check an existing keystore (keytool -list -file ...) with a password length of five characters I get the following error:
java.io.IOException: Keystore was tampered with, or password was incorrect
The password I'm using is correct (already tested with openssl).
Is there a way to alter the minimum length setting - for already existing keystores and new files?
Thx in advance!

Answer 1

I don't know how the original keystores are createdI agree. You don't know their passwords either, or at least you can't use them. Somebody has stuffed up here. Folllow it up.
But it is possible to use an already exisiting keystore (with the defined pwd), delete all certificates and import my new certificateAs long as you know the password. Obviously you don't. Someone seems to have misinformed you. Follow it up.
(I know there are reasons keytool asks at least for six characters...).Exactly, and those reasons equally apply to whoever created the keystore. So in all probability they couldn't have created them with those short passwords at all. It's irrelevant. You can't use those keystores with those passwords so they have to be sent back where they came from and re-created with useable passwords. Follow it up. There's nothing else to be said.