Thanks, Alan. I appreciate the reply. Dave
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 11:35 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [LDAP-RACF] Password Change from Linux? On Tuesday, 12/08/2009 at 07:26 EST, KEETON Dave * SDC <dave.kee...@state.or.us> wrote: > I've successfully implemented user authentication for Linux users by creating > accounts in RACF and using LDAP to check their credentials. However, > I'm > uncertain of the method whereby the user is notified of an impending password > expiration, as well as the dialog they can use to change their password. If > anyone else is using this method of user authentication, how do you facilitate > user password changes? I'd prefer not to be manually changing user's passwords > every 60 days per our policy? The z/OS and z/VM LDAP servers do not currently support the password management extensions that deal with password expiry. "IBM is aware of the requirement." Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott