Re: pwdCheckQuality doesn't work

[Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com>]

Dieter Kluenter wrote:
> I presume that you changed userpassword as rootdn, bear in mind that
> rootdn bypasses all restrictions.
>   
Thank you very much! You are right!

I guess I put this more complete checklist for "when pwdCheckQuality
doesn't work" here for anyone who also stuck and finds this message from
google:

checklist:

   1. RTFM slapo-ppolicy: done, 3 times;
   2. check openldap version: 2.4, newly installed on Gentoo Linux;
   3. check ppolicy overlay successfully loaded and being used: must be,
      because operational attribute like pwdFailureTime was maintained;
   4. pwdAttribute setting: correct, value is "userPassword";
   5. pwdCheckQuality: correct, value is 2 (server always check password
      syntax);
   6. pwdMinLength: correct, value is 6, server do not accept password
      short than 6 character;
   7. ppolicy_default: correctly set, because change pwdMaxFailure on
      default entry does have effect;
   8. the entry being operated doesn't have pwdPolicySubentry, so
      default should be applied: correct;
   9. slapd server was restarted after all above check: correct;
  10. make sure you are not bound as rootdn in testing: checked;
  11. make sure you are using ldappasswd(1) rather than ldapmodify(1): checked;

result: it works!


P. S. I know people are not generally as stupid as I am but for those
really stupid would it be nice to have this checklist also in the F.A.Q?
I know it's not really frequent, but it's easier to find it there.