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2009 Aug 27
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User's and managing expired passwords
...equires all user passwords to expire after 90 days. We also use puppet for managing all users on our machines. Our hope was, when our passwords expire, we could update the puppet manifest which would propogate to all our servers, thus updating all our passwords. The problem is, the User type (w/ manage_passwords enabled and ruby- shadow installed) will only set the password in /etc/shadow, but it doesn''t manage any of the other shadow parameters, namely the sp_lstchg parameter). As a result, after our 90-day period, all of our passwords have updated, but the individual machines still think that...