wto, 29 mar 2011, 23:01:35 +0200, Arthur de Jong napisał(a):
> On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 10:05 +0200, Mariusz Sawicki wrote:
> > libpam-ldapd  doesn’t  change shadowLastChange during password modifica-
> > tion. This problem is probably solved in 0.8.0 (according to #604147):
> > 
> >    * try to update the shadowLastChange attribute on password change
> > 
> > It should be included in squeeze, otherwise it is unusable when password
> > change request occures.
> Having the shadowLastChange attribute updated on password change is
> indeed a nice feature when using password expiry but not required in all
> environments.

Of course, but it could be forced by security policy.

> This has indeed been implemented in 0.8.0 but the 0.8 series is
> currently in experimental because it is still under development. For
> reference, the change that was implemented for 0.8.0 can be found here:
> http://lists.arthurdejong.org/nss-pam-ldapd-commits/2010/msg00302.html

Thanks for the patch. I could use it with my own build.

> Unless you can make a strong argument to have this fixed in squeeze I
> don't think it will be fixed there.

It is suggested to use of -ldapd packages insted of -ldap:

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#ldap-gnutls

So if in libpam-ldap updating of shadowLastChange works it should also
in libpam-ldapd.

Regards.

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