Re: OLC ppolicy

[Dieter Klünter <dieter@dkluenter.de>]

Am Thu, 20 Aug 2015 07:57:08 -0700
schrieb Jeremy Trammell - DLA <jtrammell@deeplearninganalytics.com>:

> On 08/20/2015 07:50 AM, Dieter Klünter wrote:
> > Am Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:07:11 -0700
> > schrieb Jeremy Trammell - DLA <jtrammell@deeplearninganalytics.com>:
> >
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> I'm trying to set up a very simple LDAP server using OpenLDAP (via
> >> OLC) and it seems hopeless.  The sticking point is ppolicy.  I have
> >> followed several online guides
> >> (http://www.ryanfrantz.com/posts/openldap-implementing-the-password-policy-overlay/,
> >> https://www.oostergo.net/node/85, to name a few), all of which seem
> >> to essentially detail the same procedure, and have met with no
> >> success. Whilst following those instructions, I receive no error
> >> messages.  All commands complete successfully and do not indicate
> >> failures of any kind.  Looking at the cn=config and target DITs,
> >> all data seems to have been imported as expected.  Despite that
> >> fact, passwd follows a "mystery policy" which bears no resemblance
> >> to the policy that I have specified, and ldappasswd follows "no
> >> policy at all you can do whatever you want". Is there some way for
> >> me to empirically determine what these commands are doing, and why
> >> my policy does nothing?  Thanks in advance...
> >>
> >> cn=module{0},cn=config
> >>> objectClass: olcModuleList
> >>> cn: module{0}
> >>> olcModuleLoad: {0}ppolicy.la
> >>> olcModuleLoad: {1}back_hdb
> >>> olcModuleLoad: {2}ppolicy
> >>> olcModulePath: /usr/lib/ldap
> > The module names are not correct.
> > Hint: check /usr/lib/ldap for correct module names.
> >
> > -Dieter
> >
> Okay, so what is the correct module name?  It's listed as ppolicy in 
> /usr/lib/ldap:
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     20 May 25 10:09 ppolicy-2.4.so.2 -> 
> > ppolicy-2.4.so.2.8.3
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root root  39328 May 25 10:09 ppolicy-2.4.so.2.8.3
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root root    954 May 25 10:08 ppolicy.la
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root     20 May 25 10:09 ppolicy.so -> 
> > ppolicy-2.4.so.2.8.3

back_hdb.la
ppolicy.la

-Dieter

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