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Re: why heimdal over MIT?

To: jcn@austin.ibm.com
Subject: Re: why heimdal over MIT?
From: Luke Howard <lukeh@PADL.COM>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 02:03:19 +1100
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>Bad point: Policies (pasword lifetime, password rules etc.) are
>incompletely or weirdly implemented but nothing that can be cured by
>some C coding.

Heimdal does support dynamic loading of password quality plugins. See
lib/kadm5/password_quality.c.

We use such a plugin not only to test password quality but to
synchronize Kerberos keys with an LDAP directory.

-- Luke

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Luke Howard | PADL Software Pty Ltd | www.padl.com

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