cash/django-password-expire

Django app to manage password expiration

Django password expiration app

This app provides configurable expiration of passwords.

Features

• Configurable password duration and warning duration
• Visual warning to user using Django messages
• Prevents user from logging in after expiration

Requirements

This Django app requires Python >= 3.6 and has been tested with Django 2.2, 3.1, and 3.2.

Installation

1. pip install django-password-expire.
2. Add password_expire to INSTALLED_APPS.
3. Add 'password_expire.middleware.PasswordExpireMiddleware' to MIDDLEWARE. It should be listed after authentication and session middlewares.
4. Configure the app in your settings:

   # contact information if password is expired
   PASSWORD_EXPIRE_CONTACT = "John Doe <jdoe@example.com>"
   # expire passwords after 90 days
   PASSWORD_EXPIRE_SECONDS = 90 * 24 * 60 * 60
   # start warning 10 days before expiration
   PASSWORD_EXPIRE_WARN_SECONDS = 10 * 24 * 60 * 60

5. Run python manage.py migrate to create the required database tables.

To redirect new users to the change password page, set this flag in the settings:

PASSWORD_EXPIRE_FORCE = True

If you want to exclude superusers from the password expiration, set this flag:

PASSWORD_EXPIRE_EXCLUDE_SUPERUSERS = True

Acknowledgements

This app is inspired by django-password-policies-iplweb.