On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 09:28:28PM +0200, Toni Schmidbauer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:41:10PM -0500, Glenn Johnson wrote:
>
> > Is there any way to get password aging to work properly on FreeBSD?
> > It seems every time I figure out how to work around one limitation,
> > I come across another one.
>
> man pw(8)
>
> see options -e and -p
>
> for example "pw usermod luser -p 01072003", so the user has to change
> his pw on 01-07-2003.
>
> if this is not working for you, please post the error message.
I know I was vague in my message, I was beating my head against the wall
at the time. The implementation of a password aging scheme has been
mandated by my employer.
I have used pw -p to set the age field in master.passwd.
Problems:
[1] Password aging does not work with NIS, which I use. My
understanding is that password aging does work with nisplus, but
FreeBSD does not have that. I figured out how to work around this
by disabling console logins on the backend nodes and just having one
machine for logins that uses local password entries. I adjusted
nsswitch.conf accordingly. This is a cluster so that workaround is
satisfactory for my situation.
[2] After a user changes the password, the change field in master.passwd
is set back to 0. I want the counter to start counting another 30
days. A cron job can handle running 'pw usermod user -p +30d' so
this is no big deal but it would be nice to have an option to repeat
the time period of expiration.
[3] Password aging does not work with xdm/gdm/kdm. I know this is not a
FreeBSD problem and a script in the session startup files is needed
here.
[4] This is the show-stopper. When the password is expired, ssh logins
fail. There is no opportunity to change the password because the
connection is closed immediately. I get the following error:
sshd[45700]: fatal: monitor_read: unsupported request: 24
So if I need to login remotely and the password has expired, I am
out of luck.
--
Glenn Johnson
USDA, ARS, SRRC Phone: (504) 286-4252
New Orleans, LA 70124 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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