[Fedora-directory-users] Question about setting a Password Policy from the Command Line

Rich Megginson rmeggins at redhat.com
Thu Jul 10 22:31:03 UTC 2008


Eric Brown wrote:
> I am trying to create an LDIF for importing a default password policy
> for my FDS server that I can quickly import after I start it. I was
> looking through the Adminstrator's Guide and it seems to be missing
> some fields that are defined in the objectclass for password policy.
>
> I was just wondering if the Admin guide was correct and has all of the
> defined attributes for the policy there and defined, or if these extra
> ones are also valid and have documentation associated with them. I am
> using the 1.0.4 version of FDS and I would guess that they online
> guides have been updated for the newer versions, but I didn't expect
> to see this much of a difference.
>
> Attributes from the Admin Guide:
> passwordGraceLimit
> passwordMustChange
> passwordChange
> passwordExp
> passwordMaxAge
> passwordWarning
> passwordCheckSyntax
> passwordMinLength
> passwordMinAge
> passwordHistory
> passwordInHistory
> passwordStorageScheme
>
> Attributes from the 00core.ldif schema definition of the password
> policy objectclass:
> passwordMaxAge
> passwordExp
> passwordMinLength
> passwordKeepHistory
> passwordInHistory
> passwordChange
> passwordWarning
> passwordLockout
> passwordMaxFailure
> passwordResetDuration
> passwordUnlock
> passwordLockoutDuration
> passwordCheckSyntax
> passwordMustChange
> passwordStorageScheme
> passwordMinAge
> passwordResetFailureCount
> passwordGraceLimit
> passwordMinDigits
> passwordMinAlphas
> passwordMinUppers
> passwordMinLowers
> passwordMinSpecials
> passwordMin8bit
> passwordMaxRepeats
> passwordMinCategories
> passwordMinTokenLength
>
> Just need to know which list is really valid,
The latter.
> and I need the
> documentation or at least explanations of the fields that I can use in
> my version. Thanks in advance.
>   
http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Password_Syntax
> Eric
>
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