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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>It’s up to the client to support warnings about password expiration (that true in general, not just where LDAP is involved). I have no idea how, or even if, WS_FTP, Filezilla or pGina support that, but I suspect they don’t.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>In my environment I’ve written scripts that will send emails when a password is close to expiration, since the clients many of our users connect with will never do it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> 389-users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:389-users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>harry.devine@faa.gov<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 09, 2012 1:02 PM<br><b>To:</b> 389-users@lists.fedoraproject.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [389-users] Question about expired/expiring passwords<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In our environment, we have users that authenticate to our LDAP server in a few ways:</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> 1) they log into the server directly using SSH via PuTTY;</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> 2) they log in to our server using FileZilla or WS_FTP using SFTP;</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> 3) they authenticate their account via the LDAP on a Windows server using pGina</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In method 1, they are prompted to change their password if it is expired, or are given the warning about the password will expire in X days. How do I have the user get a similar warning/message when connecting via methods 2 and 3? We have a lot of users who get themselves flustered because they think they have the right password, but because they're never warned or given a message, they think its wrong, put in a few more passwords, and eventually lock their account out.</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Any ideas?</span> <br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Harry</span> <br><br><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Harry Devine<br>Common ARTS Software Development<br>AJM-245<br>(609)485-4218<br><a href="mailto:Harry.Devine@faa.gov">Harry.Devine@faa.gov</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>