password expiry for a principal

Coy Hile coy.hile at coyhile.com
Thu Jan 17 22:54:53 EST 2008


Hi all,

Is there any good way to make sure that a user will be prompted to change
his password the next time he authenticates as a given principal.

My first attempt was via setting the needchange flag on a test principal,
but then I am unable to authenticate as that princpal in the first place:

kadmin:  modprinc +needchange cah220
Principal "cah220 at COYHILE.COM" modified.
kadmin:  quit
[22:53:31]supergrover:~ % kinit cah220
kinit(v5): Password has expired while getting initial credentials
[22:53:37]supergrover:~ %

For what it's worth, I'm using an MIT kdc (actually SEAM).

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Coy Hile
coy.hile at coyhile.com



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