Fixes #536 - Note that this can cause unexpected behavior with certain

backends

When running with verify-password-quality and a back-end that stores
history (such as heimdal-history) this command can cause an update to
the database meaning the password can no longer be used with this
principal in the future
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
2019-05-31 00:05:56 +00:00
committed by Jeffrey Altman
parent 9de4da0dcc
commit 290d7e75f2

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@@ -329,7 +329,13 @@ Run the password quality check function locally.
You can run this on the host that is configured to run the kadmind
process to verify that your configuration file is correct.
The verification is done locally, if kadmin is run in remote mode,
no rpc call is done to the server.
no rpc call is done to the server. NOTE: if the environment has
verify-password-quality configured to use a back-end that stores
password history (such as heimdal-history), running
verify-quality-password will cause an update to the password
database meaning that merely verifying the quality of the password
using verify-quality-password invalidates the use of that
principal/password in the future.
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