What value should pwdGraceAuthNLimit have in the default LDAP Password policy?

What value should pwdGraceAuthNLimit have in the default LDAP Password policy?

Status

DONE

Stakeholders

@Chris Tessmer @Judith Johnson @Kendall Moore @DanaP (Unlicensed) @Nicholas Markowski 

Outcome

Changed to '-1' to be in line with the core OS way of doing things.

Due date

Aug 12, 2015

Owner

@Trevor Vaughan 

Background

The current default value of pwdGraceAuthNLimit is 0. This means that, once your password expires, you cannot change it.

This is not ideal and I am thinking that a default value of 6 would be better which would effectively give you three attempts to change your password before locking you out fully.

Unfortunately, there isn't a good message that is returned when you are fully locked out so this will need to be better documented in the User's Guide.

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