addprinc -randkey broken in 1.7?

[Russ Allbery]

Greg Hudson <ghudson at MIT.EDU> writes:

> Here's the history of the temporary password used for addprinc -randkey:

>   * Through krb5 1.1, it was "dummy", which would fail any password
> policy requiring multiple character classes or more than five
> characters.  This might explain Russ's experiences.

>   * In r9210 (October 1996), it was changed to a 255 byte string
> containing all possible nonzero byte values, which would pass any policy
> with a reasonable minimum length.  I believe this change first hit the
> field in krb5 1.2.

Ah, sorry, my experience is better explained by the fact that we patch the
KDC to apply cracklib checks on a password policy, and cracklib fails this
password.  Sorry about the confusion.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>