[Samba] [Fwd: password quality compliance]

Chris Snider chris.snider at tagtmi.com
Mon Jan 24 15:54:12 GMT 2005


Thanks Andrew.  I'll take a look at it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces+seberino=spawar.navy.mil at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-bounces+seberino=spawar.navy.mil at lists.samba.org] On Behalf
> Of Andrew Bartlett
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 2:53 PM
> To: Chris Snider
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org; 'Gerald (Jerry) Carter'
> Subject: RE: [Samba] [Fwd: password quality compliance]
> 
> On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 08:31 -0600, Chris Snider wrote:
> > I would also like to see a force strong password feature added.
> 
> Which is has been.  Simo did the dirty work, and packaged my cracklib
> code into an example app, and setup a 'script' hook to call it.  The
> parameter missed documentation for a while, but should be in the latest
> snapshot as 'check password script', with the cracklib code in
> examples/auth/crackcheck.
> 
> (By using a script, simo allowed the silly exit(1) behaviour of cracklib
> to continue, without killing smbd).
> 
> Hmm, we should make this a little easier to find - I was looking under
> 'password quality script' originally...
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 
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> Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
> Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
> Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net



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