Re: /var/heimdal/kpasswdd.history no longer updating after a heimdal upgrade

On 6/29/2016 6:39 PM, Renata Maria Dart wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi, we recently upgraded our heimdal servers from solaris to linux
> RHEL6 and from heimdal 1.4.1 to 1.6.99.  In the process we seem to
> have lost the ability for password changes to update
> /var/heimdal/kpasswdd.history.  Also, I believe the check for password
> goodness has also been lost.  Password changes are getting logged to
> /var/heimdal/kpwd5.log, but before the upgrade there were numerous
> entries "didn't pass password quality check" and since the upgrade
> there are none.  But I don't see any errors to suggest what is
> wrong in the kpwd5.log.  Does anyone have any suggestions as to
> what is wrong or how to figure out what is wrong?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Renata

For the list readership kpasswdd.history is created by a password
quality plugin that is not part of the Heimdal distribution.

Jeffrey Altman