Difference between 'expiration date' and 'Password expiration date'?
Ken Hornstein
kenh at cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Tue Mar 18 12:16:25 EST 2003
>I was looking deeper into kadmin, and saw that there is an
>'Expiration date: [never]' and 'Password expiration date: [none]'
>in every principal... What's the difference?
>
>If I dare a guess, the first expires the whole principal (including
>password) and the last only expires the password... ?
>
>If I'm right, why would I want to expire the whole principal!?
You're right. I don't think most people would expire principals, but I
could think of a few reasons. For example, if you charged for accounts, you
might tie the expiration date to when the money for the account ran out.
--Ken
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