If you are using PAM in your setup,
http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/pam.html
You might want to look into passwdqc pam module which gives similar password
restrictions as on windows domains.
Jean-S?bastien Pilon
Systems Administrator
Penson Financial Services Canada Inc.
% Tel.: 514.841.9724 #269
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces+jspilon=penson.ca@lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-bounces+jspilon=penson.ca@lists.samba.org] On
> Behalf Of Cleber P. de Souza
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:01 AM
> To: Philip Washington
> Cc: Samba list
> Subject: Re: [Samba] password strength
>
> With the 'check password script' and use the crackcheck available
in
> the Samba
> (http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/samba_3_0_release/examples/auth
> /crackcheck/).
> You may need to install the cracklib and cracklib-dicts packages too.
>
>
> On 11/16/06, Philip Washington <phwashington@comcast.net> wrote:
> > I have Samba PDC with an LDAP backend. I just realized
> that the users
> > can reset their passwords to anything, a single character a
> space. Is
> > there anyway to prevent this?
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