[Freeipa-devel] krbpwdpolicypreference issues

[Simo Sorce]

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 ?

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York