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Subject: expired password (Was: Re: PAM Certificate)
From: Pavel Kankovsky (peakargo.troja.mff.cuni.cz)
Date: Thu Feb 03 2000 - 03:47:30 CST

On Thu, 3 Feb 2000 explodelst.de wrote:

> Just yesterday I patched kdm so a user can change his password when it's
> expired. I ended up looking at PAM text messages to find out what is going
> on. E.g. you get an error during authentication-- how do you find out if
> its due to the password having expired? Right--you look for "expire"
> and "passw" in the PAM error message. In the conversation function,

#define PAM_AUTHTOKEN_REQD 12 /* New authentication token required. */
                                /* This is normally returned if the */
                                /* machine security policies require */
                                /* that the password should be changed */
                                /* beccause the password is NULL or it */
                                /* has aged */

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation." 

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