Recommendations for manging user password
Alan DeKok
aland at deployingradius.com
Fri May 2 11:31:00 CEST 2008
thekat wrote:
> FirePass uses PAP for authentication.. however I have authenticated using
> both local and PAP.
>
> <code>
> "charlie" Auth-Type := Local, User-Password == "hello"
Don't set Auth-Type. Use Cleartext-Password, not User-Password. See
the FAQ.
> I will have about 75 users and need to set up password aging..
> Using system (non-shell) accounts with IDs in /etc/password could be an
> option
> I did read the "Expired" thread and I can write a script to update that
> field if necessary..
>
> My Goal
> --- let the user know their password has expired
That is an issue for the web page. You need to tell them *before* the
password has expired.
> --- let them change it themselves..
You'll need a separate script for this.
> --- age the password for 90 days
> --- I really don't want a MySQL database ( I don't know MySQL but could
> learn if I have to)
You can use system accounts for this.
Alan DeKok.
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