Unfortunately the suse documentation isn’t up with the screens in opensuse 13.2 so this very simple thing, changing the allowed max. password length I can’t find.
So far I can change it by:
Clicking: User and Group Manangement
Clicking: Configure User Management Settings
Selecting: userconfiguration
Clicking: suseMaxPasswordLength
Changing the value to whatever, let’s say 20
Clicking: OK
Clicking: OK (again)
And here it says: “A problem occurred while writing to the LDAP server.”
Clicking: OK
Now clicking: “Configure User Management Settings” again gives:
If you reread settings from the server all changes will be lost.
And sure enough it does.
I’ve left as much as possible at the defaults when setting up LDAP as I have never used it before so you can assume a very barebones non-customized setup done with the screens in YaST’s GUI, no hand editing of text files yet.
So my question is where in the server can I change this so the setting takes?
I guess you can ignore this, I did make one change I forgot about so it wasn’t logging in so I put the name of the LDAP administrator back to it’s default and then it worked.
Funny, it let’s you go to the page and make edits even though you haven’t logged into the server… that threw me for a moment until I clicked on “Details” and saw that it wasn’t connecting to LDAP because the credentials didn’t match.
On Sat, 18 Apr 2015 00:26:01 +0000, Reg gie wrote:
> Unfortunately the suse documentation isn’t up with the screens in
> opensuse 13.2 so this very simple thing, changing the allowed max.
> password length I can’t find.
>
> So far I can change it by:
>
> - Clicking: User and Group Manangement - Clicking: Configure User
> Management Settings - Selecting: userconfiguration - Clicking:
> suseMaxPasswordLength - Changing the value to whatever, let’s say 20 -
> Clicking: OK - Clicking: OK (again)
>
> And here it says: “A problem occurred while writing to the LDAP server.”
>
>
> - Clicking: OK
>
> Now clicking: -“Configure User Management Settings”- again gives:
>> If you reread settings from the server all changes will be lost.
> And sure enough it does.
>
> I’ve left as much as possible at the defaults when setting up LDAP as I
> have never used it before so you can assume a very barebones
> non-customized setup done with the screens in YaST’s GUI, no hand
> editing of text files yet.
>
> So my question is where in the server can I change this so the setting
> takes?
>
> Thanks!
Do you have an LDAP server configured? The error you’re getting seems to
indicate that you may not.
For standard non-LDAP authentication, this will probably be useful:
