How to force users to change their passwords every X months

[Jonathan Rick]

Hi there - I'd like to require users--including the administrator (me)--to change their passwords every X months. I understand that while Google Apps can't do this natively, an API code might help. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks so much!

[Claudio Cherubino]

Hi Jonathan,

You can use the Provisioning API to write a script that retrieves all users in the domain and forces each of them to change password at the next login:

http://code.google.com/googleapps/domain/provisioning_API_v2_developers_guide.html

Then you have to setup a cron job (or another scheduling solution) that is fired every x months and runs that script.

Claudio

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Jonathan Rick <jona...@jonathanrick.com> wrote:

Hi there - I'd like to require users--including the administrator (me)--to change their passwords every X months. I understand that while Google Apps can't do this natively, an API code might help. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks so much!

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[Jonathan Rick]

Thanks for your reply, Claudio. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to write a script, let alone what a "cron job" is. Do you know if what I'm looking for is perhaps already available? Thanks again.

[Claudio Cherubino]

Hi Jonathan,

You can try using Google Apps Manager but please note that it doesn't allow running a script every x months and that is not supported directly by Google:

http://code.google.com/p/google-apps-manager/

Claudio

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Jonathan Rick <jona...@jonathanrick.com> wrote:

Thanks for your reply, Claudio. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to write a script, let alone what a "cron job" is. Do you know if what I'm looking for is perhaps already available? Thanks again.

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[Jonathan Rick]

Thanks again, Claudio.