fnichol/chef-user

Any way to set password expiry options?

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JJClements commented

Is there any way using this cookbook to set password expiry options?

Typically:
root@someserver:~# chage -l root
Last password change: Mar 24, 2017
Password expires: never
Password inactive: never
Account expires: never
Minimum number of days between password change: 0
Maximum number of days between password change: 99999
Number of days of warning before password expires: 7

theckman commented

Thank you for opening this issue. That's a good question!

This cookbook is a wrapper around the user resource provided in the core of Chef. So we're only able to offer the functionality it offers as of right now. Doing some research, I don't believe there is a way to have the core user resource do password expiry:

I've not personally had to implement this within Chef, so I'm not sure I can offer a good workaround / solution. If you do come up with a solution that may work within this cookbook, I'd be more than happy to review a pull request to add the functionality.