Should the password policy set the shadow* attributes on user add?

[orion at cora.nwra.com (Orion Poplawski)]

I've configured a global password policy but when I add a user none of 
the shadowMax/shadowWarning/etc attributes are set.  Is this expected? 
With this cause a problem?

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Orion Poplawski
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