[Fedora-directory-users] Some password policy enforcement information questions

[Richard Megginson]

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 policy
>I'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 the
>client'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 password
>policy, 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 wiki
>http://directory.fedora.redhat.com/wiki/Howto:PAM and near the very
>bottom it mentions adding the following
>
> dn: cn=config
> changetype: modify
> add: passwordExp
> passwordExp: on
> -
> add: passwordMaxAge
> passwordMaxAge: 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.html
>
>Can 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
>81
>  
>
Right.  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
> 
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