[X4U] Password Expiration?

[Peter Krug]

On Apr 21, 2005, at 1:28 PM, Steve Self wrote:

> Applescript?
> Tiger OSX Automator?

I dunno about Applescript.  In the windoze world, this happens at login 
and is mandatory.  If the user decided not to change his password, he 
could just quit the applescript, no?  We're not upgrading to Tiger 
anytime soon (I have to evaluate it on non-production machines first, 
then do a slow migration to ensure everything is running smoothly.
>
> The easiest would be an item with alarm to change your password in 
> iCal, say every 100 days. Thus you would have 20 days to do it...

It has to be mandatory, not voluntary.
>
> Can you set it up so that just the folder, or partition on the drive 
> is encrypted and changes every 120 days?
>

That still wouldn't solve the problem of password changing and may 
cause lots of problems with system access to that drive.  How would the 
user know what password to enter if the drive autochanged the 
encryption password?  It couldn't access itself to make the change in 
the first place.  In short, no.


Peter
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