Net User Set Password To Not Expire

[Klacee Sawatzky]

As the admin, you can make user passwords expire after a certain number of days, or set passwords to never expire. By default, passwords are set to never expire for your organization.

Current research strongly indicates that mandated password changes do more harm than good. They drive users to choose weaker passwords, reuse passwords, or update old passwords in ways that are easily guessed by hackers. We recommend enabling multi-factor authentication. To learn more about password policy, check out Password policy recommendations.

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People who only use the Outlook app won't be forced to reset their Microsoft 365 password until it expires in the cache. This can be several days after the actual expiration date. There's no workaround for this at the admin level.

In Microsoft Entra ID, The last password can't be used again when the user changes a password. The password policy is applied to all user accounts that are created and managed directly in Microsoft Entra ID. This password policy can't be modified. See Microsoft Entra password policies.

Password policies you choose is set for each managed domain in your organization. If you add a new domain or convert a domain from federated to managed, you need to re-enable the organization password policy to update all domains again, otherwise the new or converted domain keeps the default policy.

This article is for setting the expiration policy for cloud-only users (Microsoft Entra ID). It doesn't apply to hybrid identity users who use password hash sync, pass-through authentication, or on-premises federation like Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).

OK, I am trying to be proactive about user accounts with expiring passwords. I seem to get caught where the user did not log in on the expiring day then they need help with a password reset. So I would like to send a notice out on Monday of each week to give the a heads up.

However, for those passwords that have not expired yet and are coming up, the last changed date is incorrect and show the previous date (90 days prior). This is so weird. So the BAQ result does not match the user account screen dates.

So Epicor Support was very helpful and identified that this sysuserfile table is table that holds the password info and this is one of a few tables that is locked down so that you cannot write a BAQ against it.
They suggested a BPM and I have a BPM written and being tested to notify me when a password expires for starters.

There are two system variables which affect password expiry: default_password_lifetime, which determines the amount of time between requiring the user to change their password. 0, the default, means automatic password expiry is not active.

The second variable, disconnect_on_expired_password determines whether a client is permitted to connect if their password has expired, or whether they are permitted to connect in sandbox mode, able to perform a limited subset of queries related to resetting the password, in particular SET PASSWORD and SET.

Besides automatic password expiry, as determined by default_password_lifetime, password expiry times can be set on an individual user basis, overriding the global using the CREATE USER or ALTER USER statements, for example:

Note that the limit is defined as the number of days since the last password change. And the last password change is the value of CURRENT_TIMESTAMP when the password was changed last. If the @@secure_timestamp variable is set to NO (which is its default value) any user can modify the session timestamp arbitrarily, in particular, they can pretend that the password was changed at some point in time far in the future, effectively disabling any password expiration limit.

The SHOW CREATE USER statement will display information about the password expiry status of the user. Unlike MySQL, it will not display if the user is unlocked, or if the password expiry is set to default.

If you do not want to cause any commotion by editing your user history size you can use the following command to change the security file to say that the last time you reset your password is always today's date. You can export this in your .profile file so it runs every time you log in as well.

Copy the existing group policy. Modify the password settings and then just apply it to the user you want to affect. You will then need to move the user back to the common group policy otherwise that user will need to change their password every day.

This attribute is partially read-only to anything or anybody other than the system. The only valid values that can be manually set are 0 (immediately expire) and -1 (never expire) - which is what checking the other two familiar boxes actualy do behind the GUI.

Calculate the timespan from the time the password was last changed to the time that you want the password to expire, then create a new FGPP with that span as the max password age, then add the user as a subject of the FGPP.

I recently discovered that some users with expired AD passwords are still working as if nothing has changed, which caught me by surprise. All the users affected do not use the VPN on a regular basis, or sign into Office 365. They all use desktop office for their email (Outlook) and chats (Teams). We are all still working from home.

It appears as if a user is only challenged to update their expired password once they physically authenticate against the domain controller(s). But what if they never do? This means a user with an expired password will continue to send/receive emails and send chats in Teams regardless of when their password expired, unless they perform some form of "logon".

Is this by design? In that the password expiration attribute is pointless until said account actively connects or authenticates to the domain? Why is the "expiration" attribute not part of the user SID? I'm baffled.

So this is indeed by design but it makes no sense to me, why make this the default behaviour? I see no rationale being given. It's almost like having a car with no engine, like what is the point? I'm upset with myself for assuming the contrary but happy to now be in the know, thanks again.

I did see the Note reading "The Set-MsolPasswordPolicy PowerShell command will not work on federated domains." so that will be my next hurdle to jump over before attempting to change this horrid default setting.

However the unlock command only works for accounts where the account is actually locked, but not for those accounts that are in the grace period, i.e. where the password is expired but the account is not yet locked. For these accounts the password must be reset with another version of the ALTER USER command:

EDIT: Older versions of Oracle store the password or password-hash in the pword column, newer versions of Oracle store the password-hash in the spare4 column. Script below changed to collect the pword and spare4 columns, but to use the spare4 column to reset the user's account; modify as needed.

I believe that the password expiration behavior, by default, is to never expire. However, you could set up a profile for your dev user set and set the PASSWORD_LIFE_TIME. See the orafaq for more details. You can see here for an example of one person's perspective and usage.

For those who are using Oracle 12.1.0 for development purposes:
I found that the above methods would have no effect on the db user: "system", because the account_status would remain in the expired-grace period.

The easiest solution was for me to use SQL Developer:
within SQL Developer, I had to go to: View / DBA / Security and then Users / System and then on the right side: Actions / Expire pw and then: Actions / Edit and I could untick the option for expired.

This cleared the account_status, it shows OPEN again, and the SQL Developer is no longer showing the ORA-28002 message.

The Okta API provides a credential life cycle operation to expire a password for a specific user. The API provides the flexibility to expire only the current password without generating a new temporary password.

If your Okta organization powers an external user portal, the bulk password expiration feature may not be a viable solution. To use bulk expiration, your portal must support a password expiration flow.

my logs fill up with Rejected authentications and I'm finding I have to hound these users to change their passwords. We're using the Clearpass server to authenticate against AD for employees with a corporate phones, when employees enter their username and password, they are given access to browse. The problem comes when their 60 day password expiration happens and they change their AD password on their computer but forget to change it on their phones. Is there a way to either force a prompt to update their password on their phones or somehow forget the network so it's not filling up the logs with rejected messages? I'm not sure how other people are handling this but it's quite annoying to have to hound all the users to update their passwords.

after some attempts i got it working now. in principle you just extend the filter for your authorisation source. so when the number becomes too high the attempt will fail because these is no valid auth source to auth against. i got this in the tracker: "Cannot select appropriate authentication method".

Before authentication, the default LDAP filter searches the LDAP tree for a user object. If the user object does not exist, it does not submit the authentication and returns "user does not exist". Adding "(badPwdCount>=4)" to the filter adds a restriction to the filter, that the user object also cannot have had 4 incorrect passwords. The net effect is that any user who has inputted 4 incorrect passwords, will not be returned by the filter. ClearPass will say that the user object does not exist. Since this search occurs before authentication is submitted, no authentications will be sent from ClearPass for users who are on their "last strike", preventing a lockout.

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