I have an OpenSolaris machine here; I'm using it for the first time because I want to try out ZFS. ZFS itself is working great, but I cannot get opensolaris to authenticate against our openldap directory running on Linux with md5 or sha passwords; only crypt passwords work. I'd prefer not to have to use crypt passwords; is there some magic setting I'm missing that will enable md5 passwords to authenticate?
I have authentication for Linux, Macs and Windows hanging off of an Apple OS X Server via open directory. I want to expire passwords for my users every 180 days, which is set up and works fine. The trouble is that non-Mac clients, especially Linux users, have no indication that their password is about to expire until they come in one day and their password just fails to work without any enlightening error message.
So I'd like to script the machine such that users get a warning via email a couple days in advance of their password expiring, and then another the day of the expiration. However, the OD LDAP database doesn't appear to have the information stored in it, nor does the output of mkpassdb -dump. Does anyone know how to get that information out of OD in a scriptable way, or otherwise warn Linux users of their passwords' imminent expiration?