Bug#376321: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#376321: passwd: Can't expire ldap accounts

[Christian Perrier]

tags 376321 confirmed
thanks

Quoting Yannick Gingras (ygingras at ygingras.net):
> Package: passwd
> Version: 1:4.0.3-31sarge5
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> I don't know is this is a problem with passwd or with libpam-ldap but
> I can use passwd to change the password of ldap users but I can't use
> it to expire passwords:
> 
>   # LANG=C passwd -e foo31
>   passwd: foo31 not found in /etc/passwd


The same happens in testing. I have a machine set with LDAP accounts
for testing purposes (more with samba than LDAP but well...) and I
could reproduce this.

Tomasz, others, do you think that it would be possible to use PAM to
expire passwords ?




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