Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (929 mails)

[Lars Müller <lmuelle@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 01:14:58PM +0200, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 13:02 +0200, Sven Burmeister wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 5. August 2011, 12:09:00 schrieb Lars Müller:
> > > The full password change process - you see a message like "Your password
> > > has expired!" or "Your password will expire in n days!") - happens on
> > > display manager level.
> > >
> > > If that's no longer the case please feed bugzilla.
> >
> > I think what he and the original poster mean is:
> >
> > The notification that the password has expired works. But – they cannot 
> > find a 
> > way to change the expired password, i.e. they would like to know where in 
> > kdm 
> > they have to click in order to set a new password.
> >
> > Something like:
> > Your password has expired, please enter a new one:
> > [input line]
> >
> > They cannot find the input line.

Then this is broken in KDE and maybe Gnome too.  Please file a bugreport
at bugzilla.novell.com else it will not get the attention of the people
in charge.  And please separate the issues for KDE and Gnome.

I'm testing this now with openSUSE Factory and KDM.

> Exactly. And, as I asked, if your linux password is set to expire, do
> you get a dialog in KDM to change that? It may not be an AD-only
> question.

A KDE guy must step in here.

Lars
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Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ]
Samba Team
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