Hello, Recently I was faced with a problem: too many user calls about expired passwords. Well, I thought, why not inform people by mail, that their password is valid, but already expired and they have to change it? Turned out to be quite easy.
As I use PAM (actually PMB, as it's Solaris), here is the patch: http://akson.sgh.waw.pl/~chopin/unix/imap-2004a+pam_expired_passwd.diff It should be fairly easy to do the same for ckp_sv4 and ckp_svo. Few words about setup: I added "imappublic2" account (as "imappublic" I already have used in my "force gently ssl" patch), but this can be any account (it seems it can be safely locked), make its $HOME/mail readonly, create $HOME/.mailboxlist with "INBOX" line, also read only, create mailbox to contain your message (don't forget to tell clients that their password is valid, but they are required to change it) and also chmod it 0444, so it is not possible to delete this message, obviously. To prevent clients from refetching this message over and over again, header like X-IMAPbase: 1116208079 1 should help. p. PS My message is available (polish and english text) at http://akson.sgh.waw.pl/~chopin/unix/passwd_expired.html -- Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. -- Commissioner Pravin Lal http://nerdquiz.sgh.waw.pl/ -- polska wersja quizu dla nerdów ;) _______________________________________________ Imap-uw mailing list Imap-uw@u.washington.edu https://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/imap-uw
