How To Make Your Password Case-Sensitive; Prerequisites; Making Your Password Case-Sensitive - Novell EDIRECTORY 8.8 SP5 - GUIDE 12-2009 Manual

8.2 How to Make Your Password Case-Sensitive

In eDirectory 8.8 and later, you can make your passwords case-sensitive for all the clients by
enabling Universal Password. Universal Password is disabled by default.

8.2.1 Prerequisites

By default LDAP and other server-side utilities use NDS login first and if this fails, use the Simple
Password login. For the case-sensitive password feature to work, the login needs to happen through
NMAS. Therefore, you need to set the environment variable NDSD_TRY_NMASLOGIN_FIRST
to true. This makes the case-sensitive password feature available.
Complete the following procedure to make the case-sensitive password feature available:
1 Set the environment variable
Linux and UNIX:
Add the following in the pre_ndsd_start script
the
NDSD_TRY_NMASLOGIN_FIRST=true
export NDSD_TRY_NMASLOGIN_FIRST
NetWare:
Add the following in the beginning of
env NDSD_TRY_NMASLOGIN_FIRST=true
NOTE: In NW65SP7 and the later versions of netware, the environment variable
NDSD_TRY_NMASLOGIN_FIRST is set to true by default.
Windows:
Right-click My Computer and select Properties. In the Advanced tab click Environment
Variables. Under System Variables, add the variable and set the value to true.
AIX:
Add the following in the pre_ndsd_start script
the
NDSD_TRY_NMASLOGIN_FIRST=true
export NDSD_TRY_NMASLOGIN_FIRST
2 Restart the eDirectory server.

8.2.2 Making Your Password Case-Sensitive

1 Log in to eDirectory using the existing password.
In the case of fresh install, the existing password is the one that you set while configuring
eDirectory 8.8.
For example, your password is "novell".
NOTE: This password is not case-sensitive.
2 Enable Universal Password.
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function:
StartNdsd()
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StartNdsd()
/etc/init.d/pre_ndsd_start
c:\nwserver\startup.ncf
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