Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1017518
authconfig should care about values passed to password policy options
Last modified: 2015-03-02 00:28:19 EST
Description of problem: authconfig should care about values passed to password policy options. These options are: --passminlen=<number> --passminclass=<number> --passmaxrepeat=<number> --passmaxclassrepeat=<number> 1)passminlen mustn't be set to lower then 6 (see note in /etc/security/pwquality.conf). 2) Values less then 0 (for example -3) shouldn't be allowed. Authconfig should return values != 0 in these cases. 3)Set option to float value cause error, but return code is 0, this should be fixed too. Steps 2 and 3 should be fixed for all options mentioned on the begining. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): authconfig-6.2.7-1.el7 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.authconfig --update --passminlen=3 2.authconfig --update --passminlen=-3 3.authconfig --update --passminlen=8.5 Actual results: 1) #:: [ PASS ] :: Running 'authconfig --update --passminlen=3' (Expected 0, got 0) #EXP_SCRIPT=/tmp/tmp.S6rjksz7nY #spawn su - testuser_bz515809 #Last login: Wed Oct 9 10:59:42 EDT 2013 on pts/1 #[testuser_bz515809@ibm-x3650m4-01-vm-05 ~]$ passwd #Changing password for user testuser_bz515809. #Changing password for testuser_bz515809. #(current) UNIX password: #passwd: Authentication token manipulation error #[testuser_bz515809@ibm-x3650m4-01-vm-05 ~]$ RET=234 #:: [ FAIL ] :: Running 'test_pass_change testuser_bz515809 jjlhahsd qlk' (Expected 0, got 234) passminlen set to value < 6 is allowed, value is stored to /etc/security/pwquality.conf but passwd change fail. 2) #[test]authconfig --update --passminlen=-3 #Boolean allow_ypbind is not defined #Boolean authlogin_nsswitch_use_ldap is not defined #[test]echo $? #0 This case should cause error (message should be thrown on output), return code should be != 0 3) #[test]authconfig --update --passminlen=8.5 #authconfig: The passminlen option value is not an integer #[test]echo $? #0 This case causes error, but return code should be != 0 Expected results: Additional info:
Other issue found: 4) --passminclass=<number> - minimum number of character classes in a password We have only 4 types of classes - digits, lowercase, uppercase, other. So only values 1-4 should be permitted. :: [ FAIL ] :: Running 'authconfig --update --passminclass=5' (Expected 1-255, got 0)
When I use authconfig-gtk and pass number '-3' for example, it is automatically set to value 5, but this is not good as minlen value because it shouldn't be set lower than 6.
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