Re: question about password policy

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Israel Garcia wrote:
> I am running openldap on centos 4.3 (ldap server). I have 3 CentOS
> servers and I want to unify the authentication of them on my (ldap
> server). BUT, my question is:
>
> When I create the users in openldap, how can I configure them with
> some strong policy, as:
>
> Enforce password history - 20 passwords remembered
> Maximum password age - 90 days
> Minimum password age - 85 days
> Minimum password length - 8 characters
> Password must meet complexity requirements
>
> Can Openldap do this with my user's passwords?
>
> --
> Regards;
> Israel Garcia
Yes. See the slapo-ppolicy(5) manpage.

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