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Re: ldap password policy approach




"Kurt D. Zeilenga" wrote:

> At 08:12 PM 10/27/99 -0600, Jim Sermersheim wrote:
> >What do you think?
>
> I concur that the password policy should be divorced from the
> password storage.  It's my view that, like RFC2251, the password
> policy should not place any restrictions upon how servers store
> credentials.
>
> As far as the pwdHistory attribute type, I would suggest avoid
> defining it.  That is, the policy needed concern it self with
> how a server records the history to enforce the policy.  It
> just needs to enforce the policy.

Agreed.  The policy should say if "pwdHistory"  in on or off to
tell the server to keep a history or not.


/prasanta



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> Kurt
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> Kurt D. Zeilenga                <kurt@boolean.net>
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