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NAME

       heimdal-strength - Heimdal password quality check embedding CrackLib

SYNOPSIS

       heimdal-strength [principal]

DESCRIPTION

       heimdal-strength is an external password quality check program for Heimdal that verifies
       the strength of a password.  Passwords can be tested with CrackLib, checked against a CDB
       database of known weak passwords, checked for length, checked for non-printable or non-
       ASCII characters that may be difficult to enter reproducibly, required to contain
       particular character classes, or any combination of these tests.  It is normally run via
       kpasswdd(8) using the Heimdal password quality check interface rather than directly.

       To use this program, it must be configured in krb5.conf via settings in "[appdefaults]"
       for the application name "krb5-strength".  A typical setting would be:

           krb5-strength = {
               password_dictionary = /usr/local/lib/kadmind/dictionary
           }

       which says to check passwords with CrackLib using the given path as the base path of the
       CrackLib dictionary.  See "CONFIGURATION" below for details on the supported configuration
       options.

       heimdal-strength then expects the Heimdal password quality check information on standard
       input, specifically:

           principal: <principal>
           new-password: <password>
           end

       where <principal> is the principal whose password would be changed and <password> is the
       new password.  If the password appears to be strong, it prints "APPROVED" on standard
       output and exits with a status of 0.  If the password is rejected as being too weak, it
       will print the reason for rejecting the password on standard error and exit with a status
       of 0.  If some fatal error occurs, it will print that error to standard error and exit
       with a non-zero status.

CONFIGURATION

       The following krb5.conf configuration options are supported:

       minimum_length
           If set to a numeric value, passwords with fewer than that number of characters will be
           rejected, independent of any length restrictions in CrackLib.  Note that this setting
           does not bypass the minimum length requirements in CrackLib itself.

       password_dictionary
           Specifies the base path to a CrackLib dictionary and enables password strength testing
           using CrackLib.  The provided path should be the full path to the dictionary files,
           omitting the trailing *.hwm, *.pwd, and *.pwi extensions for the CrackLib dictionary.

       password_dictionary_cdb
           Specifies the base path to a CDB dictionary and enables CDB password dictionary
           lookups.  The path must point to a CDB-format database whose keys are the known
           passwords or dictionary words.  The values are ignored.  You can use the cdbmake-
           wordlist utility to generate the CDB database from a word list.

           The CDB dictionary lookups do not do the complex password mangling that CrackLib does.
           Instead, the password itself will be checked against the dictionary, and then
           variations of the password formed by removing the first character, the last character,
           the first and last characters, the first two characters, and the last two characters.
           If any of these strings are found in the CDB database, the password will be rejected;
           otherwise, it will be accepted, at least by this check.

           Both a CrackLib dictionary and a CDB dictionary may be configured at the same time, in
           which case CrackLib will be run first, followed by the CDB checks.

       require_ascii_printable
           If set to a true boolean value, rejects any password that contains non-ASCII
           characters or ASCII control characters.  Spaces are allowed; tabs are not (at least
           assuming the POSIX C locale).  No canonicalization or character set is defined for
           Kerberos passwords in general, so you may want to reject non-ASCII characters to avoid
           interoperability problems with computers with different default character sets or
           Unicode normalization forms.

       require_classes
           This option allows specification of more complex character class requirements.  The
           value of this parameter should be one or more whitespace-separated rule.  Each rule
           has the syntax:

               [<min>-<max>:]<class>[,<class>...]

           where <class> is one of "upper", "lower", "digit", or "symbol".  The symbol class
           includes all characters other than alphanumeric characters, including space.  The
           listed classes must appear in the password.  Separate multiple required classes with a
           comma (and no space).

           The character class checks will be done in whatever locale the plugin or password
           check program is run in, which will normally be the POSIX C locale but may be
           different depending on local configuration.

           A simple example:

               require_classes = upper,lower,digit

           This requires all passwords contain at least one uppercase letter, at least one
           lowercase letter, and at least one digit.

           If present, <min> and <max> specify the minimum password length and maximum password
           length to which this rule applies.  This allows one to specify character class
           requirements that change with password length.  So, for example:

               require_classes = 8-19:upper,lower 8-15:digit 8-11:symbol

           requires all passwords from 8 to 11 characters long contain all four character
           classes, passwords from 12 to 15 characters long contain upper and lower case and a
           digit, and passwords from 16 to 19 characters long contain both upper and lower case.
           Passwords longer than 20 characters have no character class restrictions.  (This
           example is probably used in conjunction with minimum_length = 8.)

       require_non_letter
           If set to a true boolean value, the password must contain at least one character that
           is not a letter (uppercase or lowercase) or a space.  This may be helpful in
           combination with passphrases; users may choose a stock English phrase, and this will
           force at least some additional complexity.

SEE ALSO

       cdbmake-wordlist(1), kadm5-strength(3), kpasswdd(8), krb5.conf(5)

       The "Password changing" section of the Heimdal info documentation describes the interface
       that this program implements and how to configure Heimdal to use it.

       The current version of this program is available from its web page at
       <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/krb5-strength/> as part of the krb5-strength
       package.

AUTHOR

       Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

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