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  • From: "Gonzales, Charles" <address@concealed>
  • To: Steve Shipway <address@concealed>
  • Cc: "address@concealed" <address@concealed>
  • Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Password Validation in Sympa.conf
  • Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 23:22:54 +0000

Just checked and it's installed.

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Charles Gonzales
Systems Administrator
Information Technology Services, Systems Support
Tennessee Technological University

> On Nov 9, 2015, at 4:26 PM, Steve Shipway <address@concealed> wrote:
>
> Try:
>
> perl -e "use Data::Password; "
>
> If this returns an error, then it is not installed correctly.
>
> I've not yet played with this option in 6.2 myself, as we use LDAP here.
>
> Steve
>
> Steve Shipway
> T: +64 9 3737 599 ext 86487
> E: address@concealed
> (GNU Terry Pratchett)
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gonzales, Charles [mailto:address@concealed]
>> Sent: Tuesday, 10 November 2015 11:17 a.m.
>> To: Steve Shipway
>> Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Password Validation in Sympa.conf
>>
>> Yea I'm pretty sure the module is install but is there a test to run to
> verify?
>>
>> ************************
>> Charles Gonzales
>> Systems Administrator
>> Information Technology Services, Systems Support Tennessee Technological
>> University
>>
>> On Nov 9, 2015, at 4:14 PM, Steve Shipway <address@concealed>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> We have inserted the following line in the /etc/sympa/sympa.conf file:
>>>>
>>>> password_validation
>>> MINLEN=8,GROUPS=4,DICTIONARY=4,DICTIONARIES=/usr/share/dict
>>>>
>>>> This doesn't work? We can set a password as XX or 1234 and it saves
>>>> successfully. What are we missing?
>>>
>>> Have you checked that you have the Data::Password Perl module
>>> installed correctly? It may be skipping the test.
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>>> Steve Shipway
>>> T: +64 9 3737 599 ext 86487
>>> E: address@concealed
>>>




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