Issue with fine-grained password policy

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> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:06:08 -0500
 > From: "Greg Copeland" <GCopeland at efjohnson.com>

>> > Actually PADL's pam_ldap has had support for Netscape password policy
>> > for many years - you just have to enable it and tell it the DN of the
>> > policy object. Recently support has also been added for the IETF draft
> 
> Can you expand on the "...tell it the DN..." part there?

I misspoke. When you configure the pam_lookup_policy keyword pam_ldap 
will do an anonymous search in the rootDSE with a filter 
(objectclass=passwordPolicy) and use what it finds there. So the only 
requirement is that you give anonymous enough privileges to perform the 
search.

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   Director, Highland Sun        http://highlandsun.com/hyc
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