[Freeipa-users] Authentication failure when a reset the password

[Stephen Ingram]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Joe Linoff <jlinoff at tabula.com> wrote:
> Hi Everybody.
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> I ran into a strange problem today: I reset a user password in the GUI to
> “Test1234” for testing but when I tried to login as that user and enter the
> password, I got an authentication error. Does anyone know why this might be
> occurring or how I can debug it?

...snip...

When you reset the user password in the GUI it is set to expire
immediately, thus the user must change it the next time they login
(klinit). See the documentation at
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/15/html/FreeIPA_Guide/changing-pwds.html
for more detail.

Steve