Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (929 mails)

[Roger Oberholtzer <roger@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 16:57 -0500, Sunny wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Lars Müller <lmuelle@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 08:19:31AM -0500, Sunny wrote:
> > > I have opensuse Thumbleweed as a member od windows AD domain. It
> > > started showing password expiration notice.
> >
> > - KDM or GMD?
> > - When did it started to work?
> >  "I moved from the plain KDE version is part of openSUSE 11.4 to ..."
>
> Its KDM, I'm unsure what you mean by "when did it started to work". It
> was always working - i.e. logging with a domain user/pass. It's just a
> company policy that passwords expire, and I need to change mine.
>
> > > What is the opensuse way to change my password for the domain?
> >
> > Both display managers (kdm/ gdm) had been able to handle this quite
> > well.  If this doesn't work any longer please file a bug report.
>
> I.e. you mean - when I try to login, and it no longer let's me in, I
> can change the password from the login screen? Or the KDM has
> somewhere option to change password - I could not find it, that's why
> I ask.

I have never seen a place to change it. I always have had to do so via
Windows. Of course, I have not tried in a while. But if your password is
expired (not accepted) and KDM does not pop up a window offering you to
set a new one, then I bet there is no such facility. I have never
recognized any KDM configuration option that enables that. That is not
to say there isn't one...

Having said that, what happens with a regular Linux account password if
it is set to expire? Does KDM offer a place to enter a new one?

While on the topic of AD, aside from not needing to set up an account on
the Linux machine, what else can logging in via AD offer on openSUSE?



Yours sincerely,

Roger Oberholtzer

OPQ Systems / Ramböll RST

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