Re: Expired passwords and Display Managers

2004-11-29 Thread Ralph Katz
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 acce

Re: Expired passwords and Display Managers

2004-11-29 Thread Tom Allison
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 yo

Re: Expired passwords and Display Managers

2004-11-29 Thread Tom Allison
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,

Re: Expired passwords and Display Managers

2004-11-29 Thread Thomas Adam
--- 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)?

Expired passwords and Display Managers

2004-11-29 Thread Tom Allison
I've been doing some testing with expiring passwords (30 day limit, 5 day warning, 3 days expires) on my server and noticed a very nasty problem. WDM does not notify me of a pending expiration. This means that there is no way for a "typical" user to know that their password is about to expire.