[Freeipa-devel] krbpwdpolicypreference issues

[Petr Viktorin]

On 12/20/2013 03:07 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 14:59 +0100, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>> On 12/20/2013 02:46 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 10:22 +0100, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>>>> On 12/19/2013 10:24 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
>>>>> I have been looking at how we deal with krbpwdpolicypreference as we
>>>>> found issues with AD synced users, which get no password policy :/
>>>>>
>>>>> I found out that we do not rely on CoS anymore for setting the attribute
>>>>> (origin of this bug I would guess), but instead explicitly set the
>>>>> policy on user objects.
>>>>>
>>>>> Why is that ?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also I still see in bootstrap-template.ldif that we create a Password
>>>>> Policy object in cn=accounts in theory, but I do not have this object on
>>>>> my server, what happens to it, what removes it ? Why ?
>>>>
>>>> I don't see it in any update file. Was your server installed before this
>>>> was added (2009-10-02)?
>>>
>>> Actually it is indeed possible, but then why there was no update file
>>> with the change ?
>>
>> Maybe Rob can tell us a reason. It was added in commit dac224c2.
>> Most likely it's a bug, please file a ticket.
>
> Ok, anyway this part was not interesting, I am more interested in why we
> explicitly add krbpwdpolicypreference to the user object and do not use
> CoS for the default ?

I found some discussion at https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/51. 
For further questions I guess you'll need to wait for Rob.

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Petr³