[Fedora-directory-users] Password Expiration Loop

Jim Summers jsummers at bachman.cs.ou.edu
Fri Feb 9 19:37:06 UTC 2007


Kyle Tucker wrote:
>> I am still troubled with the issue of a users password expiring, they get the 
>> messages to change, successfully change password.  Then the next time that 
>> they login, the password loop begins again.
> 
> If you are using shadowAccount objectclass for passwords (versus password 
> policies), I had this same issue until I enable self-write access to the 
> shadowLastChange attribute.
> 
> In Directory tab, select root domain 
> 
> Right click and Select Set Access Permissions  Select "Enable self-write for common attributes" and click on Edit  Select "Self" and click on Edit Manually button.
> 
> After "userPassword", insert "|| shadowLastChange " and click on OK and
> again on OK on the parent window.

That did the trick!  Many Thanks!


> 

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Jim Summers
School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma
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