Date format and mailing list question

Christopher Hogan chris.c.hogan at gmail.com
Sat Nov 5 18:54:37 EDT 2011


I recently wanted to add a year to the password expiration date of a
principle. However, I can not find a valid reference for how this date
should be formated.

I did read the Date Format section of the Administrator's Guide.
However, none of the examples work. For example:
kadmin:  modify_principal -pwexpire "next year" principal
Produces:
Invalid date specification "next year".
kadmin:  modify_principal -pwexpire "11/31/2012 10:00:07 MST" principal
Produces:
Invalid date specification "11/31/2012 10:00:07 MST".

This tells me that the documentation is wrong, there is a bug in
Kerberos, or the Date Format section does not apply to this command.

Can someone tell me what the correct date format is for this command?
Should I file a bug report to get the documentation, or command
corrected?

On a different matter, is there a searchable version of this mailing
list? I found the archives at:
http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/kerberos/ However, I could not find a
way to search it other than parsing each thread manually.

Thank you for you time and help!
Christopher Hogan



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