[sork] string length

[René Jensen]

For me this sounds like a good idea, allthoug it would require some additional 
comments in the conf.php file.

The system I use do not have max passwd length set.
(but we actually have min passwd length.)
And I definately see that the information could be usefull.

I don't know how this would be implemented in the LDAP part of the passwd 
module, (if LDAP even care..). But I will try to come up with a patch for the 
smbpasswd, and poppasswd parts later today.

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     René Jensen
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Quoting Erik Slooff <erik@slooff.com>:

> Hi,
> 
> (trying to avoid the word password in the subject: this apparantly confuses
> the 
> list manager...)
> 
> I was wondering if it's a good idea to have 2 variables defined per server in
> 
> passwd/config/conf.php for password string length control. Eg. 
> min_password_length and max_password_length added to the $conf['server']
> ['......'] arrays.
> 
> Reason I'm suggesting this is that I got a 500 error from poppassd in horde
> and 
> also saw some syslog errors from PAM which at first I couldn't understand. 
> After some digging I found out that in /etc/login.defs max password length
> was 
> set to 8 chars and the new password string I had entered was longer.
> 
> To prevent this you could show a message in the password change screen 
> informing the user what the min and max length of the password string should
> be 
> (and maybe even adjust the field length in the form?).
> 
> using the following versions
> Horde: 2.1.1-cvs 
> IMP: 3.1.1-cvs
> Turba: 1.1.1-cvs 
> Nic: 0.0.2-cvs 
> Passwd: 2.0 
> 
> Just my 2 cts,
> 
> Bye
> 
> Erik
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