Re: Why Samba didn't use pam to hook into cracklib

[Love Hörnquist Åstrand <lha@kth.se>]

Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> writes:

> Perhaps I should explain a little about the history of Samba cracklib
> patches, because it seems rather relevant to the current discussion on
> heimdal-discuss.  The history here may be of interest to samba-
> technical, so I've CC'ed it there.

After reading the whole thread about password quality and cracklib, I added
externalized password protocol check yestoday. I didn't use the samba
protocol since I wanted to be able to provide more information to the
password quality checker, username, old passwords, etc.

The code is in last nights snapshot, I'll update the documentation later
today. There will also be a simple example.

Love

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