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Workspace AIX
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 7, 2020

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AIX Password Checking issue

Please refer the case #TS003130621. AIX 7.1 and above are having the pattern matching with regexec is not case insensitive , which is failing our compliance check and reporting the system.

Idea priority Urgent
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 4, 2021

    The fix has been delivered in AIX 7.2.5 & AIX 7.1.5.7
    APAR_aix_7.2.5 IJ23615
    APAR_aix_7.1.5.7 = IJ26576

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 5, 2020

    .This is to be delivered in 7.2.5

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 8, 2020

    Josh, that is their primary request - to change the password checking regcmp to use REG_ICASE, but this needs design reconsideration, since this would be a new feature which would require some fallback consideration.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 7, 2020

    Are you using the REG_ICASE flag on regcomp? So far as I can tell, POSIX standard for regexc only ignores case when you specify that flag when compiling the pattern. Default functionality preserves case.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 7, 2020

    The specific issue is in the pattern matching during AIX password checking, when using dictionlist.

    When dictionlist file contains 'liberty'
    The following fails, as expected:
    liberty Liberty lIberty LIBerty

    If using pattern matching '*.*liberty'
    1liberty fails as expected
    1Liberty is accepted, because the regcmp is case sensitive.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 7, 2020

    The specific issue is in the pattern matching during password checking, when using dictionlist.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jan 7, 2020

    The specific issue is in the pattern matching during password checking, when using dictionlist.

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