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[Openvpn-users] Windows: Expiring passwords


  • Subject: [Openvpn-users] Windows: Expiring passwords
  • From: Rainer Sokoll <R.Sokoll@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:06:49 +0200

Hi alltogether,

my question is a bit off topic, but someone here may be faced with the
same problem and have an idea:
Scenario: Home offices and a Windows domain policy forcing password
expiration.
The user logs onto his workstation by using the cached credentials (no
connection to the domain controller at this time). Afterwards, the user
fires up OpenVPN and everything is fine.
But: assumed, the user has to change his password every 60 days or so? I
am not a windows guru, but from my knowledge: changing the password
requires a connection to the domain controller. No problem while the VPN
is up. But the password will only be changed on the domain controller,
not on the user's computer.
I would expect that the user now has 2 different passwords for the same
account (the local password and the password on the domain controller).
To go ahead: if the users's computer has a domain wide policy that
requires password change, but the local stored password will /never/ be
changed, I guess the user will not be able to log onto his computer,
neither with the remote password (since the local computer did not got
notified about the password change) nor with the old (local) password
(since it is marked as expired).
Does anyone know of a working solution besides running OpenVPN as a
service?

Rainer

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