Re: Expired passwords and Display Managers
--- Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I consider this to be a very bad thing. Why? This is exactly as it should be. It's a PAM issue which is only affected when one logs in via login(1). DMs have no concept of this. Alternative Display Managers (not KDM or GDM please, I use neither)? login into the (gasp!) console, and use 'startx'. -- Thomas Adam = The Linux Weekend Mechanic -- http://linuxgazette.net TAG Editor -- http://linuxgazette.net shrug We'll just save up your sins, Thomas, and punish you for all of them at once when you get better. The experience will probably kill you. :) -- Benjamin A. Okopnik (Linux Gazette Technical Editor) ___ Win a castle for NYE with your mates and Yahoo! Messenger http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Expired passwords and Display Managers
Thomas Adam wrote: --- Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I consider this to be a very bad thing. Why? This is exactly as it should be. It's a PAM issue which is only affected when one logs in via login(1). DMs have no concept of this. Alternative Display Managers (not KDM or GDM please, I use neither)? login into the (gasp!) console, and use 'startx'. -- Thomas Adam I can't (gasp!) have everyone doing that, they'll insist on using Windows (bigger gasp!). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Expired passwords and Display Managers
Thomas Adam wrote: --- Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I consider this to be a very bad thing. Why? This is exactly as it should be. It's a PAM issue which is only affected when one logs in via login(1). DMs have no concept of this. This may be true, but how do you get this to work if you have a policy of expiring passwords and have nothing but client systems in place? Pushing the joe user to running a CLI + startx isn't going to be very successful when you are trying to get acceptance to a new system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Expired passwords and Display Managers
On 11/29/2004 06:30 PM, Tom Allison wrote: This may be true, but how do you get this to work if you have a policy of expiring passwords and have nothing but client systems in place? Pushing the joe user to running a CLI + startx isn't going to be very successful when you are trying to get acceptance to a new system. Tom, From my perspective as a user, that's your admin problem! ;) You can create scripts to check expirations and email users, right? Getting that policy acceptance you seek requires making it easy for your users. Regards, Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
