[krbdev.mit.edu #4236] kadmin: password expiration date format

petesea@bigfoot.com via RT rt-comment at krbdev.mit.edu
Tue Sep 5 11:23:43 EDT 2006


Using krb5-1.4.3.

Is there any chance the admin internal help or kadmin error message could 
be enhanced to include the format of an acceptable password expiration 
date.

I'm forever forgetting the format required to set an expiration date and 
the only message I get back is a "kick me while I'm down" error:

    Invalid date specification "8/21/06"

That doesn't really help much.. how about saying what the specification 
SHOULD be. :-)

And by the way... with all the formats that ARE accepted, why isn't 
"mm/dd/yy" valid.  Is it because of the ambiguity between the US and "the 
rest of the world"... in other words "mm/dd/yy" vs "dd/mm/yy"?  If that's 
the case, then why is "dd/mm/yy HH:MM:SS TZ" accepted?.. actually it 
doesn't look like that works either... despite what the man page says.




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