On 06/30/2014 09:03 AM, Rob Crittenden wrote:
Alex Chistyakov wrote:
Hello,
We have a FreeIPA-based system, admin's password has expired and needs to be
changed but the standard password changing procedure over SSH fails:
sashka@cellar ~ ssh [email protected]
[email protected]'s password:
Password expired. Change your password now.
Last failed login: Mon Jun 30 15:38:21 MSK 2014 from 116.10.191.195 on
ssh:notty
There were 6071 failed login attempts since the last successful login.
Last login: Wed Apr 16 19:28:54 2014
WARNING: Your password has expired.
You must change your password now and login again!
Changing password for user admin.
Current Password:
New password:
Retype new password:
Password change failed. Server message: Current password's minimum life has
not expired
Password not changed.
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
Connection to ipa.xxxxxxxxxx.com closed.
If we try to change the password using passwd it fails too with the same error
message:
[admin@ipa ~]$ passwd
Changing password for user admin.
Current Password:
New password:
Retype new password:
Password change failed. Server message: Current password's minimum life has
not expired
Password not changed.
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error
[admin@ipa ~]$
What should we do to resolve this situation?
I'd eventually look at your password policy to see what the min/max
values are.
To force a password change and avoid password policy you need to bind as
the Directory Manager. Using ldappasswd will help with that:
$ ldappasswd -x -D 'cn=Directory Manager' -W
uid=admin,cn=users,cn=accounts,dc=example,dc=com -A -S
Old password:
Re-enter old password:
New password:
Re-enter new password:
Enter LDAP Password:
I'd run this on the IPA master for easeo-of-use. It should havea
pre-configured ldap.conf which sets the host and enables TLS. Otherwise
you'll need to add a -h <host> and -Z to the command.
rob
Alex,
Is there anything we can learn from this?
Was it a misconfiguration or something else?
Could we have done something better to avoid situations like this?
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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal
Sr. Engineering Manager IdM portfolio
Red Hat, Inc.
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