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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve seen a few references to this when searching the lists and mention of enhancements to later versions of freeipa to allow setting certain users to have passwords that don’t expire.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m on rhel6, which has an older freeipa, and I cant see it being updated anytime soon. So I thought I’d share what I did to work around this.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Scenario: setup a user account with a password that doesn’t expire. Example: an account with credentials to bind to ldap to do searches.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Created a user “ldapbind” in freeipa.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Created a user group in freeipa: service_accounts<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Added ldapbind as a member of service_accounts<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Created a new password policy in freeipa: service_accounts<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Replicated the same settings in the service_accounts password policy as per the default global_policy with the exception of “Max Lifetime”, which, instead of 90 days, I set to 7300 days.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The service_accounts policy was created with priority 0 (same as global_policy). All users who don’t belong to the service_accounts group will get the standard 90 day expiry from the global_policy. Users who do belong to the service_accounts
group get the service_accounts password policy.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This seems to be a valid workaround for me. Hope it helps others.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Les<o:p></o:p></p>
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