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

This appears to have fixed it!  Thank you!!!!!!!

 

Charlie

 

From: address@concealed [mailto:address@concealed] On Behalf Of David Verdin
Sent: Thursday, November 12, 2015 4:50 AM
To: address@concealed
Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Password Validation in Sympa.conf

 

It's a brand new feature. I guess very few started using it.
Sorry for not answering your mail,, I was very busy lately. I found it difficult to keep in track with the lsits.

Actually it looks like, under certains circumstances (perl version maybe ?) The BEGIN section requiring the Data::Passwrod module at runtime is ignored.

Requiring it directly in the sub works everywhere. Then using the -cruder - version of the code below seems to fix the problem:

    if ($Conf::Conf{'password_validation'}) {
        require Data::Password;
    }


Please try to add it at the beginning of the password_validation() sub in tools.pm and confirm it fixes the problem. If then , I'll add the fix to next Sympa release.

Cheers,

David

Le 11/11/2015 17:27, Gonzales, Charles a écrit :

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

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-----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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