On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:41 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So holy crap does the planet hate it when you ask people to reset their > passwords. In particular though, they hated the following: > > 1. Kittens Personally I thought people were having kittens for all the 'problems' occurring. Maybe we should set up an adoption agency? The main thing with password changes is that a segment of the society does not like them <PERIOD>. They will quote spafford, etc etc about how its wrong to change passwords and with some members of our faculty do a virtual sit-out in protest. In general I hand them some lemons and tell them to make lemonade. [But that is why I am probably going to see our HR rep about..] Normally our policy for accounts is the following: 15 day email saying your account will be locked, and then deleted 15 days after lock. 7 day email saying your account will be locked, and then deleted 15 days after lock. 1 day email saying your account will be locked. and then 1 day email saying your account is locked and will be deleted in 15 days. 7 day email saying... you get the picture If a person does not get the message within that time frame... well that is life. If we are going to schedule these for a precise period (say first week of March, September (if 180 day timeframe)) a mail can go out to the list also. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ Fedora-infrastructure-list mailing list Fedora-infrastructure-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-infrastructure-list
