Re: [ldapext] LDAP - password in history

[Allan Clarke <mailinglistid2003@yahoo.com>]

yes, my application connects to a iPlanet ldap server with all the password policies I mentioned earlier. I want to a know a way how my application can can check if the user entered password already exists in history. To do so there should be some attribute in some objectclass which contains the list of passwords. And at the moment I don't know how to get there. There is so little help out there that it is virtually impossible to find anything without any help.

Cheers

Allan

 Ludovic Poitou <ludovic.poitou@Sun.com> wrote:

Hi Allan,

Your question looks like to be related to a specific Directory Server
implementation and it may be better to ask directly to the vendor...
PasswordHistory and PasswordinHistory attributes are Netscape / iPlanet
/ Sun ONE specific as far as I know.

Regards,

Ludovic.

PS: With Sun ONE Directory Server 5.x, if the password is in the history
(when attempting to CHANGE it), the error returned is Constraint
Violation and the additional message will tell you that the password is
in the history.

Allan Clarke wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> My application is written in ColdFusion. We are using LDAP to
> authenticate users and have a strict
> password policy. The password expire in 30 days, a warning message is
> sent to the user 7 days
> before the password expires. LDAP also remembers 3 p! asswords in
> history and ooh I forgot the
> password encryption is Salted Secure Hashing Algorithm (SSHA).
>
> Right, now I want to know a way to check if the user entered password
> is already in history. I
> get a error "Invalid Credentials" when I try to use a password that is
> in history. I know there
> is a LDAP attribute "PasswordHistory" and "PasswordInHistory" but I
> don't know which objectclass
> they belong to. I see the "PasswordHistory" attribute in the user
> advanced properties window but it
> does not have any value. One other question, if this is the only way
> to check if the password
> exists in history, how do I add this attribute to my schema?
>
> Your help would be greatly apprecited.
>
> Regards
> Allan
>
>
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Ludovic Poitou
Sun Microsystems Inc.
Sun ONE products - Directory Server Group - Grenoble - France

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