RE: Issue with fine-grained password policy

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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:06:08 -0500
> From: "Greg Copeland" <GCopeland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> 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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