Re: Expired passwords and Display Managers

From: Tom Allison (tallison_at_tacocat.net)
Date: 11/30/04

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    Thomas Adam wrote:
    > --- Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net> wrote:
    >
    >>I consider this to be a very bad thing.
    >
    >
    > Why? This is exactly as it should be. It's a PAM issue which is only
    > affected when one logs in via login(1). DMs have no concept of this.

    This may be true, but how do you get this to work if you have a policy
    of expiring passwords and have nothing but client systems in place?

    Pushing the "joe user" to running a CLI + startx isn't going to be very
    successful when you are trying to get acceptance to a new system. 

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