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["Gonzales, Charles" <address@concealed>]

So no one out there uses password validation?   No one at all, even the 
programmers of the product, can provide some info into why the validation 
isn't working, even if all of the required modules and entries in the config 
file are present?

Charlie

-----Original Message-----
From: address@concealed 
[mailto:address@concealed] On Behalf Of Gonzales, Charles
Sent: Monday, November 9, 2015 5:23 PM
To: Steve Shipway <address@concealed>
Cc: address@concealed
Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Password Validation in Sympa.conf

Just checked and it's installed.

************************
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
>>>