Edirectory Passwords

Since the introduction of its One Net vision, Novell has helped thousands of organizations around the world blend heterogeneous systems into manageable, unified networks. Novell eDirectory, the world's most advanced high-end directory service, has been a key to that success. Running on a host of server operating systems and supporting a wide range of industry standards, eDirectory has given businesses an identity foundation that spans the organization.

Yet despite eDirectory's extreme interoperability, the traditional Novell password has, at times, proved to be an obstacle in this integration. In the past, administrators have had to manage multiple password types (such as a simple password, NDS password and enhanced password) because of password limitations. Administrators have also had to deal with keeping the passwords synchronized.

With the release of Novell eDirectory 8.6 (and additional functionality in version 8.7), Novell introduced Universal Password to address these challenges by simplifying the integration and management of different password and authentication systems into a coherent network.

• NDS Password
• Simple
• Enhanced Password: The enhanced password, the forerunner of Universal Password, offers some password policy, but its design is not consistent with other passwords. It provides a one-way synchronization and it replaces the simple or NDS password. This was never widely used.
• Universal Password

Edirectory Password Expiration Administrative Changes

If an administrator changes a NDS password it's expired to 1992-01-01.

If the same administrator does it w/NMAS enabled it is expired to the present (2008-03-28 19:44:00 GMT).

Migrating Passwords To Universal Password

LDAP use of Edirectory Passwords

Password Expiration Notification

Some reference Links

• Creating Universal Password Policies outside of the Security Container
• How to get LDAP Case Sensitive Passwords with eDirectory 8.7.3
• To understand Universal Password
• NOVELL: Cool Solutions: Universal Password, Part 1
• NOVELL: Cool Solutions: Universal Password, Part 2
• NOVELL: Cool Solutions: Password Enhancements in eDirectory 8.8
• Novell Modular Authentication Service
• Universal Password Diagnostic Utility
• Native File Access Protocols Guide
• Universal Password Synchronization Scenarios at login time
• What is a simple password?
• Cannot Set Simple Password through LDAP after upgrading to NMAS 2.3.9
• Novell Modular Authentication Service 3.1
• NDAP Authentication
• Password Enhancements in eDirectory 8.8
• From the Inside Out: Taking Advantage of the New Universal Password
• Universal Password, Part 1
• Enforcing Case-Sensitive Universal Passwords
• NDS102: Authenticating to NDS Using C (NDAP) APIs
• Password Management Administration Guide
• Resetting the password expiration date ... has no effect. - TID10098342
• Dump eDirectory Password Information Tool
• Login Methods
• Novell Modular Authentication Service
• NMAS Java Docs
• Challenge Response Servlet