Forced Password Change - Advance Warning Prompt?

[LMStone]

Is there a way we are not seeing to have Zimbra prompt users a few days in advance of their having to change their expiring password?

Outlook Connector users often have forgotten their password (or keep it in an email), and need some time to collect their old password--and still get their email in the interim.

There are a few GPOs in Windows that control this behavior there for logins; anything similar in Zimbra?

TIA!

Mark

[uxbod]

Probably worth a vote on this very old RFE :- Bug 7812 - password aging warning via SMTP

[LMStone]

Originally Posted by uxbod

Probably worth a vote on this very old RFE :- Bug 7812 - password aging warning via SMTP

Just voted for it, thank you!

Happy Holidays,
Mark

[uxbod]

Mark,

will have a look at this tomorrow as a simple shell script should be able to accommodate this requirement.

Cheers,

Phil

[dljordaneku]

Can this be done by CLI and a cron job for now? I was thinking if you can send an email by CLI and have a script to run daily that would check how long until a password expires and if a certain day generate an email to that user.

dj

[uxbod]

Okay, I have written something that may be of help. Its not finished as don't have time today. It gets all accounts and if the zimbraMaxPasswordAge > 0 (never expire) then it will query when the password on the account was last changed, add the max password age, and show when the password will need to be changed

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Time::Local;

open(ZCSGAA, "zmprov gaa |");
while ($account = <ZCSGAA>) {
    chomp($account);

    $zmprov = "zmprov ga " . $account . " zimbraPasswordModifiedTime zimbraPasswordMaxAge";
    open(ZCSGA, "$zmprov |");
    while (<ZCSGA>) {
        s/#.*//; next if /^(\s)*$/;
        chomp($_);
        if (!defined($zpmt)) { ($zpmt) = $_ =~ /zimbraPasswordModifiedTime: (.*)Z/g; }
        if (!defined($zpma)) { ($zpma) = $_ =~ /zimbraPasswordMaxAge: (.*)/g; }
    }
    close(ZCSGA);

    if ($zpma gt 0) {
        ($year, $mon, $day, $hour, $min, $sec) = $zpmt =~ /(\d{4})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2})(\d{2}).*/;
        $epoch = timelocal($sec,$min,$hour,$day,$mon,$year);
        $changepass = $epoch + ($zpma * 24 * 60 * 60);

        ($sec,$min,$hour,$day,$mon,$year) = localtime($changepass); $year = 1900 + $year; $mon++;

        printf "$account password will need to change on %02d/%02d/%04d %02d:%02d:%02d\n", $day, $mon, $year, $hour, $min, $sec;
    }
}
close(ZCSGAA);