Re: Password lockout policy max failure.

[Mark Reynolds <mreynolds@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9/24/21 9:47 AM, Michael Starling wrote:

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From: Mark Reynolds <mreynolds@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2021 9:38 AM
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Subject: Re: [389-users] Password lockout policy max failure.

 

On 9/24/21 9:23 AM, Michael Starling wrote:

Hello.

I'm having an issue where we have passwordMaxFailure set to "5" in the global policy but users are getting locked out after 3 attempts.

This is because you have a mix of global and local policies.  Local policies override the global policy.

In the local policy you did NOT set passwordMaxFailure, so it uses the default of 3.  If you don't need separate policies then just use the global policy for everything and remove he local policies.

On a side note, if you are using dsconf on the same system as the directory server you can simplify the cli usage to use LDAPI, and it's much less to type:

dsconf -W -D cn=manager ldaps://dsa101.mydomain.com:636 pwpolicy get

This can become:

# dsconf slapd-YOUR_INSTANCE_NAME pwpolicy get

You can even shorten this by removing the "slapd-" prefix:

# dsconf YOUR_INSTANCE_NAME pwpolicy get

It's just easier to explain this the first time by using the "slapi-", but it's completely optional.  So on my system my hostname and instance name are localhost.  So I use all the CLI tools like this:

# dsconf localhost pwpolicy get

This only works if you run dsconf on the DS machine, and you need to run it as root.  This works for all the CLI tools (dsidm, dsctl, and dsconf)

HTH,

Mark

Once again, great information Mark.

So essentially, I need to set passw​ordMaxFailure 5 in the local policy as well?

Correct, or remove the local policy (unless you need it).

Mark

Thanks

Right now, when a user is locked out the only way I can tell is by looking at the attributes below. 

One is likely to assume that once the "accountUnlockTime" attribute has been set on an account, the account is indeed locked out.

accountUnlockTime: 20210920190503Z
passwordRetryCount: 3
retryCountResetTime: 20210920181413Z

[mstarling@dsa101 ~]$ dsconf -W -D cn=manager ldaps://dsa101.mydomain.com:636 pwpolicy get

Global Password Policy: cn=config

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nsslapd-pwpolicy-local: on

passwordstoragescheme: SSHA512

passwordchange: on

passwordmustchange: off

passwordhistory: on

passwordinhistory: 10

passwordadmindn: cn=Generic_PasswordPolicy_Override,ou=LDAPadmin,dc=mydomain,dc=com

passwordtrackupdatetime: on

passwordwarning: 86400

passwordisglobalpolicy: on

passwordexp: on

passwordmaxage: 7776000

passwordminage: 86400

passwordgracelimit: 0

passwordsendexpiringtime: off

passwordlockout: on

passwordunlock: on

passwordlockoutduration: 600

passwordmaxfailure: 5

passwordresetfailurecount: 600

passwordchecksyntax: off

passwordminlength: 48

passwordmindigits: 0

passwordminalphas: 0

passwordminuppers: 0

passwordminlowers: 0

passwordminspecials: 0

passwordmin8bit: 0

passwordmaxrepeats: 0

passwordpalindrome: off

passwordmaxsequence: 0

passwordmaxseqsets: 0

passwordmaxclasschars: 0

passwordmincategories: 5

passwordmintokenlength: 3

passwordbadwords: athena health interface

passworduserattributes: cn uid sn givenName mail gecos homeDirectory

passworddictcheck: on

passworddictpath: /usr/lib64/security/pam_cracklib.so

nsslapd-allow-hashed-passwords: on

nsslapd-pwpolicy-inherit-global: on

dsconf -W -D cn=manager ldaps://dsa101.mydomain.com:636 localpwp get "ou=People,dc=mydomain,dc=com"

Local Subtree Policy Policy for "ou=People,dc=mydomain,dc=com": cn=cn\3DnsPwPolicyEntry_subtree\2Cou\3DPeople\2Cdc\3Dmydomain\2Cdc\3Dcom,cn=nsPwPolicyContainer,ou=People,dc=mydomain,dc=com

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passwordstoragescheme: SSHA512

passwordmustchange: off

passwordhistory: on

passwordtrackupdatetime: on

passwordexp: on

passwordmaxage: 7776000

passwordlockout: on

passwordchecksyntax: on

passwordminlength: 14

passwordmincategories: 4

passworddictcheck: on

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