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JezerM / web-greeter

A modern, visually appealing greeter for LightDM.
https://jezerm.github.io/web-greeter-page/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Needs password change function for expired accounts #13

Closed ulkuderner closed 2 years ago

ulkuderner commented 2 years ago

It would be great to have a change password option for expired passwords on directory service like unity-greeter

JezerM commented 2 years ago

Could you elaborate this? I can't make unity-greeter to work and never used it before, so I don't know what you mean~

ulkuderner commented 2 years ago

This feature is required for directory service logon methods (Samba, AD etc.)

Use case is: If user password expired, logon screen needs to ask for new password after checking credentials. The answer is coming over winbind or sssd.

lightdm with unity has this ability as I know.

JezerM commented 2 years ago

I don't think that's actually possible with LightDM, as this is mainly just a way to login to your Linux desktop.

Services like Samba wouldn't be shown in LightDM users section (unless you specify it inside /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf). And even if you do, it will log you in a Session with that user, which wouldn't be convenient. It won't ask you for a new password, so it's less convenient.

Also, there's no way to check if a user password is expired with LightDM while this is inactive (when you are inside a Session). Therefore, this won't prompt for expired passwords when they expire.

Maybe, Unity has this feature as a DE, and some other DEs do something similar. But I guess this feature is out of the scope of LightDM.