Re: Password Expiry

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Brett Maton <matonb(at)ltresources(dot)co(dot)uk>
Cc: pgAdmin Support <pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Password Expiry
Date: 2013-04-10 12:03:12
Message-ID: CA+OCxown1eMQx5gH3OixpOPFhv+ELiZiRmV+bzaZwhZPYgG7Cw@mail.gmail.com
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Hi

On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Brett Maton <matonb(at)ltresources(dot)co(dot)uk> wrote:
> pgAdmin v 1.16.1
>
> Windows 7 x64
>
>
>
> PostgreSQL v9.4.2
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> CentOS 6.4
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>
>
> pgAdmin by default when editing a user’s account settings seems to set
> Account Validity to ‘1969-12-31 00:00:00+01’ if the role is defined as valid
> until infinity.
>
> This results in the user not being able to login, and only receiving a
> password authentication failed error message (Account Expired would be more
> helpful, but that’s for Postgres ;)).
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>
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> An example would be adding a user to a group role via the Role membership
> tab, and never actually opening the Definition tab.
>
> You’d be blissfully unaware that Password validity had been changed.

This has been fixed already for future releases:

commit 265143d8134a5d191ad6db1162a9408f23c185c7
Author: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Date: Wed Feb 6 15:24:50 2013 +0000

Fix expiry date handling for users.

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