[Freeipa-users] Lost access after password policy change

[Jason Woods]

On 15 Sep 2014, at 14.48, Jason Woods <devel at jasonwoods.me.uk> wrote:

> I wonder if anyone has any advice. We changed password policy to 20000 days a few weeks ago.
> 
> Over the weekend, passwords expired and now we cannot login. All admin accounts are essentially unusable.
> Seems to be this issue: https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3312

Just solved it by turned the clock back to around 1975, playing around with password change, and then returning to 2014. Eventually let me get in so I could kinit and fix the policy.

Phew. Sorry to bother.

Jason