It looks like the way it works is this:When you have enabled password warning, an operational attribute called "passwordExpWarned" is created in the user's entry. The value will be 0 until the user does a successful BIND operation and the time between now and the configured password expiration time is less than or equal to the configured password warning time. When this happens, the warning will be sent, the value of passwordExpWarned will be changed to 1, and the operational attribute passwordExpirationTime in the user's entry will be set to the time at which the password will expire. When the user changes the password, passwordExpWarned will be reset to 0 and passwordExpirationTime will be set to the new expiration time.
Bliss, Aaron wrote:
If I've configured a correct password policy and the warning attribute is not getting updated, should this be considered a bug? Aaron -----Original Message----- From: fedora-directory-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-directory-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Megginson Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 1:48 PM To: General discussion list for the Fedora Directory server project. Subject: Re: Some password policy enforcement information questions Bliss, Aaron wrote:Please forgive me if I'm asking silly newbie questions, however I'm trying to understand exactly what I'm seeing thru fds; first the policyI've configured on the directory using the fds console:I've enabled fine-grain password policy for the data unit, including password history enforcement, password expiration after 90 days, password warning 14 days before password expires, check password syntax, account lockout policy enabled after 3 login failures for 120 minutes and reset failure count after 15 minutes.Everything seems to be working except for send password warning; in theclient's ldap.conf file, I've enabled pam_lookup_policy yes. Looking at account information attributes for a user, passwordexpwarnd value is 0; I've reset users password to try to initialize the passwordpolicy, however this value never seems to change. According to this documentation http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/7.1/password.html#10770 81 I believe that this attribute is stored in seconds. Is this true?Yes.If so, what can I do to ensure this attribute is getting updated (assuming that this is the attribute responsible for triggering password expiration warning).I'm not really sure.Second issue/question: I've looked at this wikihttp://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:PAM and near the very bottom it mentions adding the followingdn: cn=config changetype: modify add: passwordExp passwordExp: on - add: passwordMaxAgepasswordMaxAge: 8640000 (this I believe would give a password max age of 100 days)Do I need to add these attributes even though I've configured the password policy using fds console has done this for me. Is this the case, I see don't these attributes in the gui, however I do see passwordexpirationtime as an attribute and is set to 90 days from now (I'm want to ensure that accounts are indeed locked after passwords have expired).Those attributes are only for global (default) password policy - what you have set for fine grained password policy will override those.Also, Jim Summers posted to this group that he saw an issue with shadowpasswd / shadowexpire fields not being updated https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-directory-users/2005-December/msg 00367.htmlCan anyone tell me what these fields are used for, as I don't see any mention of them in this documentation http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/ag/7.1/password.html#10770 81Right. They are a PAM/posix thing - FDS treats them as any other data - it doesn't update them from it's own password policy.Thanks again very much. Aaron www.preferredcare.org"An Outstanding Member Experience," Preferred Care HMO Plans -- J. D. Power and AssociatesConfidentiality Notice: The information contained in this electronic message is intended forthe exclusive use of the individual or entity named above and may contain privileged or confidential information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that dissemination, distribution or copying of this information is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone and destroy the copies you received.-- Fedora-directory-users mailing list Fedora-directory-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-userswww.preferredcare.org "An Outstanding Member Experience," Preferred Care HMO Plans -- J. D. Power and Associates Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this electronic message is intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above and may contain privileged or confidential information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible to deliver it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that dissemination, distribution or copying of this information is prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone and destroy the copies you received. -- Fedora-directory-users mailing list Fedora-directory-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-directory-users
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