Samba and Passwords

[Nathan Aubrey]

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