[Fedora-directory-users] Password Syntax Checking

Nathan Kinder nkinder at redhat.com
Tue May 27 17:24:49 UTC 2008


Eric Brown wrote:
> I have been trying to get the Password Syntax Checking working with
> FDS 1.0.4 and am having some trouble with the passwords that it is
> allowing and the ones that are returning invalid syntax.
>
> I started by setting the password policy the way I thought I wanted to
> use for my environment, but then no passwords would work, so I changed
> everything down to the minimums that I could find, but I am still
> getting several passwords rejected due to a syntax error. I am not
> using the console and I need to be able to set this through an LDIF
> file.
>
> Currently I have these settings for the password policy configuration:
>
> passwordInHistory: 2
> passwordUnlock: on
> passwordGraceLimit: 0
> passwordMustChange: off
> passwordWarning: 86400
> passwordLockout: on
> passwordMinLength: 4
> passwordMinDigits: 0
> passwordMinAlphas: 0
> passwordMinUppers: 0
> passwordMinLowers: 0
> passwordMinSpecials: 0
> passwordMin8bit: 0
> passwordMaxRepeats: 0
> passwordMinCategories: 1
> passwordMinTokenLength: 1
>   
You should use a larger value for passwordMinTokenLength, such as 3.  
This setting checks if portions of the attribute values in the users 
entry are in their password such as a password with your name in it.  A 
setting of 1 is going to be very strict, meaning that any character that 
is in your name can not be present in your password.  See this page for 
more detail:

    http://directory.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Password_Syntax

-NGK

> passwordMaxFailure: 3
> passwordMaxAge: 3888000
> passwordResetFailureCount: 120
> passwordisglobalpolicy: off
> passwordChange: on
> passwordExp: on
> passwordLockoutDuration: 300
> passwordCheckSyntax: on
> passwordMinAge: 0
> passwordStorageScheme: SSHA256
>
> I am getting syntax errors on passwords like the following:
>
> spfihykr
> spfihykr10
> qpwoeiru
> 10293847
> cmdjeu37
> alskdj37
> xnshwy26
> doggie
> doggie12
>
> but things like testpass works just fine.
>
> I figure that I have something not configured properly, but I don't
> know what needs to be changed. And some of the values that I am using
> were in the User Account Management section of the Administrator's
> Guide two weeks ago, but they are missing now.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Eric Brown
>
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