Hi Dieter,
Thank you for the suggestion. This certainly is one way to go. Your approach is simple. That's always good. I just need to think whether disallowing password change for trial users is acceptable.
Sincerely,
Igor Shmukler
On Thursday, March 5, 2015, Dieter Klünter dieter@dkluenter.de wrote:
Am Thu, 5 Mar 2015 11:35:23 +0200 schrieb Igor Shmukler <igor.shmukler@gmail.com javascript:;>:
Hello,
I am trying to implement a trial [period] for new customers, using the OpenLDAP password policy overlay.
I was thinking about setting a combination of pwdMaxAge, pwdMustChange and pwdAllowUserChange.
Basically, the best idea I have had is to set MaxAge to the length of trial [in seconds] then in a user changes the password while in trial mode, calculate MaxAge as (trial_length - time_passed), then at the end setting MustChange to true and AllowUserChange to false [until the trial has been converted].
Is that a sane policy? Should I be doing something totally different? Please advise.
I would create and set a password according to RFC-3062, a little Perl script could do this and mail the password to the trial user. I would not allow a user to modify her pasword in a trial period.
Policy would be pwdAllowuserChange: false pwdMustChange: false pwdSafeModify: false pwdMaxAge: according to your requirements.
-Dieter
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