Howard Chu wrote: >> >> Message: 5 Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:25:16 -0700 From: Richard >> Megginson <rmeggins at redhat.com> Jo De Troy wrote: > Hello, >> >>> > >>> > I was wondering if anyone was looking into enforcement of strong > >>> passwords. >>> > I'm not a hardcore C programmer but I'm willing to help. But first >>> > I'll have to try in getting the current version compiled. >>> > I'm certainly willing to do some testing. >>> >> >> >> Funny you should mention that. We're looking at that issue right >> now. What sort of things would you want to check for? >> min number of lower case >> min number of upper case >> min number of digits >> min number of alphanumerics >> min number of special chars >> no user data in password >> dictionary checking? If so, how? /usr/share/dict/words? >> >> > > For OpenLDAP's password policy module we define an attribute in the > policy object that gives the pathname of a dynamically loaded module > that can perform further quality checks. We pass in the password that > is being set, an error string pointer, and the user's current entry > and get a yes/no result code back. I suggest a similar approach here; > it's too limiting to just hardcode one set of rules into the server. > (Heck, if we used SLAPI, we could write these modules interchangeably > between OpenLDAP and FDS.) Symas currently has a module that checks > against cracklib. You could bundle one or two standard modules and go > from there. Probably we should have extended our API to include a > pointer to the current policy object as well. The point is to make the > API simple enough and expressive enough that end-users can plug in > whatever constraints they want. Yes. That's the intention - make password policy pluggable. It's going to be a bit more work to add the entry points to the code. We should support the attribute that you described. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3178 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature Url : http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/389-users/attachments/20060119/24ea732b/attachment.bin
