[389-users] Question about expired/expiring passwords

[harry.devine at faa.gov]

Yeah, I figured as much, but thought I'd ask.  I have a script that runs 
nightly to notify users of impending expirations, and it works well. 
Unfortunately, they usually get ignored, which is why I thought if the 
"you password is due to expire in X days" hits them whereever and however 
they connect, that would help.

No big deal.  Thanks for the help!
Harry



From:
"Morris, Patrick" <patrick.morris at hp.com>

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Date:
08/09/2012 04:41 PM
Subject:
Re: [389-users] Question about expired/expiring passwords
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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.
 
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.
 
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harry.devine at faa.gov
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2012 1:02 PM
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Subject: [389-users] Question about expired/expiring passwords
 

In our environment, we have users that authenticate to our LDAP server in 
a few ways: 

        1) they log into the server directly using SSH via PuTTY; 
        2) they log in to our server using FileZilla or WS_FTP using SFTP; 

        3) they authenticate their account via the LDAP on a Windows 
server using pGina 

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. 

Any ideas? 
Harry 

Harry Devine
Common ARTS Software Development
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(609)485-4218
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