[Samba] questions about password complexity checking.
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Sat Feb 18 02:37:21 MST 2012
On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 10:48 -0600, Morgan Toal wrote:
> Hi Samba folks,
>
> I had a couple questions about password complexity checking.
>
> To preface, in smb.conf, we set:
>
> check password script = /usr/local/sbin/crackcheck -d
> /usr/share/cracklib/pw_dict
>
> Also, if I understand correctly:
>
> /usr/local/sbin/crackcheck comes from samba source rpm package.
> maybe we need to compile it ourselves.
>
> /usr/share/cracklib/pw_dict* comes from cracklib-dicts rpm package
>
> Here are my questions:
>
> 1) may we also specify -c along with -d in check password script
> paramater to enable "NT like complexity checks"?
If you want, you can.
> 2) what precisely are "NT like complexity checks"?
At least 3 of: upper, lower, digit, punctuation.
> 3) there is no file /usr/share/cracklib/pw_dict however there in
> /usr/share/cracklib there is: pw_dict.hwm, pw_dict.pwd, and pw_dict.pwi
> I am thinking pw_dict.pwd is the actual dictionary. It's in some sort of
> binary format. Why do we not specify the file extension in the smb.conf
> paramater?
Because the underlying FascistCheck() function only wants the prefix,
without the extension.
> 4) How may we list/modify contents of pw_dict.pwd?
I don't think you can. But you can instead change crackcheck to also
check your personal dictionary of banned passwords.
Andrew Bartlett
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