[SSSD-users] Fedora 18, FreeIPA and password expiration warning

Anthony Messina amessina at messinet.com
Mon Feb 18 07:37:21 UTC 2013


On Monday, February 18, 2013 08:26:54 AM Jakub Hrozek wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 12:12:32AM -0600, Anthony Messina wrote:
> > I have just upgraded a few of my machines from Fedora 17 to Fedora 18
> > (sssd-1.9.4-3.fc18.x86_64) and on the F18 machines, users are now
> > presented
> > with the "Your password will expire in 204 days..." message.  All machines
> > are connected to an F17 FreeIPA server
> > (freeipa-server-2.2.1-2.fc17.x86_64) which has the "Password Expiration
> > Notification (days)" set to 30.
> > 
> > I've been reading up on the "pam_pwd_expiration_warning (integer)"
> > variable in the sssd.conf man page, and the default is supposed to be
> > "0", which I think should allow the FreeIPA configuration to pass
> > through.
> > 
> > Is there something I'm missing here?  I'm pretty sure people don't need to
> > see the prompt at every login for the next 204 days, even though i bet
> > some of them will still not have changed their password ;)
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.  -A
> 
> Hi Anthony,
> 
> you are hitting bug https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1808 A patch is
> already on the list. Once it's peer-reviwed, I'll submit an update for
> Fedora.
> 
> I also cloned the updstream ticket to
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=912223 so that we can track
> the problem in Fedora. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Not a problem at all.  Thanks to both you and Dmitri for the quick Monday 
morning response.  It's still overnight here ;)  -A

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