On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 10:23 PM White, Daniel E. (GSFC-770.0)[NICS]
via FreeIPA-users <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Is it worth a Feature Request ?  Either here or at Red Hat ?

Ideally through Red Hat Support yes.

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> From: Rob Crittenden <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, July 6, 2020 at 16:12
> To: FreeIPA <[email protected]>
> Cc: Daniel White <[email protected]>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Freeipa-users] Password Policy Question
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> White, Daniel E. (GSFC-770.0)[NICS] via FreeIPA-users wrote:
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> Are there settings in FreeIPA similar to the setting available from the
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> chage command ?  I am specifically looking for a setting for the time
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> after a password expires to allow the user to update it.
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> I am looking for the same "grace period" that the non-IPA shell password
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> has. From the change man page:
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> -M, --maxdays MAX_DAYS
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> Set the maximum number of days during which a password is valid. When
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> MAX_DAYS plus LAST_DAY is less than the current day, the user will be
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> required to change his/her password before being able to use his/her
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> account.
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> -I, --inactive INACTIVE
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> Set the number of days of inactivity after a password has expired before
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> the account is locked. The INACTIVE option is the number of days of
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> inactivity. A user whose account is locked must contact the system
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> administrator before being able to use the system again.
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> I find nothing like this in the documentation.
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> I do know, however, that when a user is initially created, the password
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> expire time is set to the current clock time.
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> When the user logs in for the first time, they are prompted to change
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> their password.
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> I am looking for a parameter -- like chage's INACTIVE -- that defines a
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> grace period from the time the password expires until the account is
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> locked and requires admin intervention.
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> Or does that only happen for the account creation ?
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> There is nothing automated to do this. Theoretically you could use
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> krbprincipalexpiration to enforce this but there is nothing that will
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> add some offset to it when a password is changed.
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> I think it would be fairly straightforward to add but it would require a
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> new policy attribute, new CLI/UI to manage that attribute, etc.
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> The actual setting of the attribute is probably like 5 lines of code.
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