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Re: ppolicy in openldap

To: openldap-technical@openldap.org
Subject: Re: ppolicy in openldap
From: "Dieter Kluenter" <dieter@dkluenter.de>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:47:15 +0100
In-reply-to: <82E499DEBAB95F4E91140984379FB1C62FFAFA@NOC-ML-09.ohlogistics.com> (John Allgood's message of "Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:02:21 -0600")
References: <82E499DEBAB95F4E91140984379FB1C62FFAFA@NOC-ML-09.ohlogistics.com>
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"Allgood, John" <jallgood@ohl.com> writes:

> Hello All
>
> I am fairly new to openldap and have some questions about password
> policys. We are running ldap on RHEL5 and using openldap 2.3.27. The
> ppolicy overlay gives me a lot of what I need but RHEL5 does not seem to
> have it installed. How can I get this installed? Also the best that I
> can tell is that ppolicy does not have any dictionary checks either. Is
> this true or did I just miss something? What I would like to setup is
> what we currently have in place using cracklib. Minlen=8 at least 1
> Uppercase, 1 Lowercase, 1 Number, 1 special char.

In order to install the ppolicy overlay, openldap has to be build with
overlays enabled. I don't know wether RedHat does include overlays in
their built.
With regard to dictionary checks, slapo-ppolicy(5) refers to
pwdPolicyChecker object class.

-Dieter

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- ppolicy in openldap
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