[Freeipa-users] Force IPA to accept password?

[Sumit Bose]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 02:58:43PM +0100, Innes, Duncan wrote:
> Sorry, 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Martin Kosek [mailto:mkosek at redhat.com] 
> > Sent: 26 September 2013 14:29
> > To: Innes, Duncan
> > Cc: freeipa-users at redhat.com
> > Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Force IPA to accept password?
> > 
> > On 09/26/2013 01:05 PM, Innes, Duncan wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Can I force IPA to accept a new password that I have chosen?
> > 
> > What password do you have in mind? A password of an IPA user?
> > 
> 
> Yes - for my authentication when SSHing onto a Linux box.
> 
> > > 
> > > Today I've had to change my password in 2x AD domains and 
> > > other places according to policy.  I've done this.
> > > 
> > > But coming to IPA, I find that I've chosen a "BAD 
> > > PASSWORD".  Without getting into the merits of the AD password
> > > policy and the security of the password I've chosen, can I
> > > force IPA to accept my new password at all?
> > 
> > Well, without getting into security of the approach, you 
> > could change the global password policy or group password 
> > policy so that the new password is
> > accepted:
> > 
> > $ ipa pwpolicy-mod --minlength=5
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > $ ipa pwpolicy-add usergroup --minlength=5
> > 
> > ... to "fix" whatever failing password policy attribute.
> >
> 
> The error comes from a dictionary check I think.  AD does as well as far
> as I know, but would appear to have a smaller dictionary or looser
> rules.
> 
> Kind of what I expected/feared though.  I don't want to change the IPA
> policy at all, just override it's objection.  For now, I went the long
> route and changed my IPA password first, then changed the other
> passwords
> To match what IPA was happy with.

Which command did you use to change the password? 'passwd' or 'ipa
passwd'?

If you use 'passwd' the PAM stack on the client for the passwd command
comes into play which typically has some modules like pam_pwquality.so
listed which do checks including dictionary checks.

If you use 'ipa passwd' the password should be only validated against
the server-side password policy Martin mentioned above.

HTH

bye,
Sumit
> 
> > HTH,
> > Martin
> > 
> 
> Cheers & thanks for your help
> 
> Duncan
> 
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