Re: [pgAdmin][RM-6120]: Adding/updating user should not allow to add an older date in account expires.

Hi Nikhil

On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 2:38 PM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 8:18 AM Akshay Joshi <
> akshay(dot)joshi(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
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>> Thanks, patch applied.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 11:28 AM Nikhil Mohite <
>> nikhil(dot)mohite(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Team,
>>>
>>> Please find the attached patch for RM-6120
>>> <https://redmine.postgresql.org/issues/6120>: Adding/updating user
>>> should not allow to add an older date in account expires.
>>> Added UI validation if a user enters the account expiration date
>>> manually.
>>>
>>
> I think this needs to be reverted (and the UI fixed to allow an older date
> to be selected).
>

Please fixed as suggested by Dave and send the patch. I'll update the RM

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> Selecting a past expiry date is a perfectly valid way to create an account
> that is effectively locked, for example, to allow pre-creation of roles for
> staff that are yet to join.
>
> PostgreSQL doesn't prevent this - why should we?
>
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