[IPP] Initial Draft of 'IPP "job-password-allowable-pattern" attribute' whitepaper posted
Michael Sweet
msweet at apple.com
Mon Mar 30 20:42:22 UTC 2015
Here is my proposal from Feb 4th:
> All,
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> Here are some quick links to the MS Active Directory and Apple Open Directory password policy support:
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> Active Directory supports a bunch of things, but for job-password the two relevant settings are "Passwords must meet complexity requirements" and "Minimum password length"- there is no notion of more complex settings to control the contents of the password string:
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> https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh994562(v=ws.10).aspx
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> Open Directory supports limits on the length (min and max), maximum number of repeated characters (i.e., prevent use of "aaaa" as a password) and sequential characters (e.g., "1234"), plus controls for "must contain a letter" and "must contain a number":
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> http://support.apple.com/kb/PH9234
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> Seems like a simple keyword approach may be sufficient, e.g.:
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> job-password-policy-configured (type2 keyword)
> job-password-policy-supported (1setOf type2 keyword)
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> Informs the Client of the formatting requirements for "job-password" values, includings:
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> 'digits': The "job-password" value must consist of digits from 0 to 9.
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> 'alphanumeric': The "job-password" value must consist of US ASCII letters and numbers.
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> 'alphanumeric-complex': The "job-password" value must consist of US ASCII letters and numbers, with at least one uppercase letter, one lowercase letter, and one digit.
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> [For discussion: do we want full ASCII and Unicode printable support, too?]
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> As for length requirements, right not "job-password-supported" is of type integer(0:255). Ideally we'd want a rangeOfInteger(0:MAX) value to provide minimum and maximum lengths - not sure how much trouble we'd cause by extending that attribute to "integer(0:MAX) | rangeOfInteger(0:MAX)", but IMHO that would be the ideal outcome.
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alternately we can add a "job-password-minimum-length integer(0:255)" attribute to specify the minimum length of a "job-password" value separately.
> On Feb 4, 2015, at 1:44 PM, Kennedy, Smith (Wireless Architect) <smith.kennedy at hp.com> wrote:
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> Greetings,
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> As per yesterday’s discussion, I have posted an initial draft of a ‘IPP “job-password-allowable-pattern” attribute’ whitepaper, that contains use cases and a proposed attribute that needs definition to allow a Printer to convey size and content limits on what range of values the Printer will accept for the “job-password” attribute.
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> The initial draft is here:
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> http://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/wd/wp-job-password-allowable-pattern-20150204.docx
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> Feedback and contributions are of course welcome!
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> Cheers,
> Smith
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