I think there is a way to use PAM to do this. I would research that.

On 2/15/07, Nathan Aubrey <nathan@paysonlinux.org> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 15 February 2007, you wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 16:14 -0700, Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> > > I want to enforce some good password policies, such as 30 changes, no
> > > dictionary words, can't use the previous 2 passwords...
> > >
> > > Can this be done with samba and ldap?
> > > I'm not seeing how to do this.
> >
> > ----
> > newer versions of ldap have password policy features (OpenLDAP 2.3,
> > Fedora Directory Manager)
> >
> > Craig
>
> I am already using cracklib, but it is not checking. I setup the
> crackcheck
> program, and that seems to do the trick. I can no longer use cherry as my
> password!
>
> Now I have to work on previous similar passwords.
> I made a script to force password changes every 30 days.
>
> nathan
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