[389-users] Determine when a password is about to expire

[Aaron Hagopian]

Harry,

This is the pattern I use to parse the date in java: "yyyyMMddHHmmss'Z'".
 You can probably deduce what the values represent by looking at the
pattern.  Also the times are stored in UTC so you'll probably want to
convert that to the local timezone if you're going to display the date/time
to the user.

Aaron

2011/1/21 <harry.devine at faa.gov>

>
> I can get the passwordexpirationtime value, but I'm unsure what you mean by
> "set the password expiration to occur immediately".  I'm coming from the
> Windows world, so I'm used to the "User must change password at next logon"
> checkbox.  I don't see that anywhere on the GUI, so I'm unclear how you set
> that.
>
> Also, how do I manipulate the dates?  I get something similar to
> 20110122161029Z (for example) for passwordexpirationtime.  How do I convert
> that to a proper date format?  Also, I just changed my account's password
> while testing, and I see that passwordexpirationtime got reset to
> 19700101000000Z.  What does the 1970xxx value represent?
>
> Thanks,
> Harry
>
> Harry Devine
> Common ARTS Software Development
> AJT-144
> (609)485-4218
> Harry.Devine at faa.gov
>
>
>  From: James Roman <james.roman at ssaihq.com>
>  To:
> 389-users at lists.fedoraproject.org
> Date: 01/21/2011 10:17 AM Subject: Re: [389-users] Determine when a
> password is about to expire Sent by:
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>
>
>
> Most LDAP servers use a different schema than the Microsoft version and
> work from the opposite direction. Try querying "passwordexpirationtime". You
> can do a search for the specific password schema with the following info:
> 2.16.840.1.113730.3.2.12  passwordObject
>
> I think it is more common to:
> 1. administratively set the password on a user account
> 2. set the password expiration to occur immediately.
> 3. set the passwordGraceUserTime for a time period that allows the user to
> log in solely to change their password.
>
> However, you must explicitly program your site to gracefully handle this
> situation (condition where passwordexpirationtime < now <
> passwordGraceUserTime) , since the user's LDAP authentication attempt
> against the directory will fail (with an error indicating the password has
> expired).
>
> On 01/21/2011 09:45 AM, *harry.devine at faa.gov* <harry.devine at faa.gov>wrote:
>
> I am in the process of creating a web-based mechanism to allow our users to
> change their password on our new 389-ds server.  I would like to display the
> date that their password is due to expire, and while Googling around, I see
> a lot of references to pwdLastSet, but about 95% of the articles are
> referring to Active Directory.  I don't see pwdLastSet amongst the
> attributes in my default 389-ds setup.  Is it there, or do I have to add
> that attribute to every account?
>
> Also, I currently have my pages set up where, when the user logs in, it
> detects our 'default' password and forces them to change it.  Is there some
> attribute in their account that I can set that I can key off of and force
> them to change their password when they login to my site?
>
> Thanks for any tips!
> Harry
>
> Harry Devine
> Common ARTS Software Development
> AJT-144
> (609)485-4218*
> **Harry.Devine at faa.gov* <Harry.Devine at faa.gov>
>
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