Re: Ubuntu not enforcing password policies

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On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 12:57 -0500, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:22:44PM -0500, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> > Seem to have it now.  The Ubuntu host did not like the settings copied
> > in from Fedora.  However, simply reversing the default Ubuntu settings
> > so that they are now:
> > 
> > account required   pam_unix.so
> > account sufficient pam_ldap.so
> 
> Please be careful about this.  If this is the entire set of "account"
> modules, then I think the end-result when pam_ldap.so fails might be
> undefined (in particular, the user may be allowed access anyway, even if
> pam_ldap.so indicates that the user should not have access, because no
> "required" modules have indicated problems).
> 
<snip>
Thanks very much.  I'm trusting the Ubuntu folks know what they're
doing.  This is part of an included pam file.  However, I should
double-check.  Should pam_deny.so be at the end of the chain? - John
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