Expiring password conundrum

[Lipscomb, Gary]

Hi all,

We have configured Shibboleth IdP (v3.4.6) to check for expiring passwords triggered by our openLDAP password policy.
All works as planned. The user is warned that their password is expiring and given the options to

1. click on the link to change their password
2. clink on the link to continue to the original site
3. wait 20 seconds before being sent to the original site.


The issue we are seeing is that if a user clicks on the change password link they are presented with another IdP login page since our change password page is protected by Shibboleth and also the original request hasn't completed (its waiting 20 seconds before meta-refresh). If they enter their credentials again they get the expiring password message scenario.

Is there a way to complete the original IdP login process when clicking on the link to change password so the user doesn't have to re-enter their credentials.

If they have an expired, or locked password due to login failures we provide a link to another site not protected via Shibboleth.

Regards

Gary

Gary Lipscomb
Technical Officer, Systems(Infrastructure) | Infrastructure & Client Services | Division of Information Technology
Charles Sturt University
Panorama Avenue
Bathurst NSW 2795
Tel: +61 2 6338 6533
Email: glipscomb at csu.edu.au |www.csu.edu.au




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