3:46 p.m.
I am running OpenLDAP as packaged for CentOS 5 and having problems with
password expiration.
Users are being told every time they login that their password has expired
and to change their password. When ShadowMax is changed to 99999 their
passwords are not expiring. The preferable setting is 90 days.
ShadowLastChange is updating to the correct date when they input a new
password. Thank you for you time and input as to why this might be
occurring.
9:43 a.m.
Hi Cris,
On 27/03/12 00:46, Collins, Cris L. wrote:
I am running OpenLDAP as packaged for CentOS 5 and having problems
with
password expiration.
Users are being told every time they login that their password has expired
and to change their password. When ShadowMax is changed to 99999 their
passwords are not expiring. The preferable setting is 90 days.
ShadowLastChange is updating to the correct date when they input a new
password. Thank you for you time and input as to why this might be
occurring.
shadow attributes are used by UNIX systems during authentication,
depending on your system configuration (PAM, pam_ldap, login.defs...)
However, the OpenLDAP server itself will not use these attributes to
prevent binds by LDAP, which is what I understand you expect. For this,
check out the ppolicy overlay.
Jonathan
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2:16 p.m.
The problem was resolved by adding the following per the nis schema. My statement below
was incorrect. shadowLastChange was not updating, as "getent shadow username"
showed me.
access to attrs=shadowLastChange,shadowMax
by dn="cn=Manager,dc=domain,dc=com" write
by self write
by * read
Thank you for your response.
On 04/03/2012 12:43 PM, Jonathan Clarke wrote:
Hi Cris,
On 27/03/12 00:46, Collins, Cris L. wrote:
> I am running OpenLDAP as packaged for CentOS 5 and having problems with
> password expiration.
> Users are being told every time they login that their password has expired
> and to change their password. When ShadowMax is changed to 99999 their
> passwords are not expiring. The preferable setting is 90 days.
> ShadowLastChange is updating to the correct date when they input a new
> password. Thank you for you time and input as to why this might be
> occurring.
shadow attributes are used by UNIX systems during authentication,
depending on your system configuration (PAM, pam_ldap, login.defs...)
However, the OpenLDAP server itself will not use these attributes to
prevent binds by LDAP, which is what I understand you expect. For this,
check out the ppolicy overlay.
Jonathan
2:23 a.m.
On Tuesday, 3 April 2012 23:16:43 Collins, Cris wrote:
The problem was resolved by adding the following per the nis schema.
My
statement below was incorrect. shadowLastChange was not updating, as
"getent shadow username" showed me.
access to attrs=shadowLastChange,shadowMax
by dn="cn=Manager,dc=domain,dc=com" write
by self write
by * read
Thank you for your response.
Yes, it will work, for applications that look for shadowAccount attributes.
My approach is to remove ldap from the shadow line of nsswitch.conf, configure
ppolicy on the LDAP server, and ensure PAM is setup correctly to enforce
password expiration via ppolicy.
Then, even if users never login to a shell on a server configured for LDAP,
they will be locked out of all other LDAP-using services (except for WiFi
access points via FreeRADIUS EAP PEAP with MSCHAPv2 against samba attributes,
since even if the samba attributes are updated, FreeRADIUS doesn't currently
seem to respect them).
Regards,
Buchan
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