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6 epn.conf - Expiring Password Notification configuration file
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9 /etc/ipa/epn.conf
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12 The epn.conf configuration file is used to set the options for the ipa-
13 epn tool to notify users of upcoming password expiration.
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17 The configuration options are not case sensitive. The values may be
18 case sensitive, depending on the option.
19 Blank lines are ignored. Lines beginning with # are comments and are
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22 Valid lines consist of an option name, an equals sign and a value. Spa‐
24 ces surrounding equals sign are ignored. An option terminates at the
25 end of a line.
26 Values should not be quoted, the quotes will not be stripped.
28 # Wrong - don't include quotes
30 verbose = "True"
31 # Right - Properly formatted options
33 verbose = True
34 verbose=True
35 Options must appear in the section named [global]. There are no other
37 sections defined or used currently.
38 Options may be defined that are not used by IPA. Be careful of mis‐
40 spellings, they will not be rejected.
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43 smtp_server <fqdn>
44 Specifies the SMTP server to use. The default is localhost.
45 smtp_port <port>
47 Specifies the SMTP port. The default is 25.
48 smtp_user <user>
50 Specifies the id of the user to authenticate with the SMTP
51 server. Default None.
52 smtp_password <password>
54 Specifies the password for the authorized user. Default None.
55 smtp_client_cert <certificate>
57 Specifies the path to a single file in PEM format containing the
58 certificate. Default None.
59 smtp_client_key <private key>
61 Specifies the path to a file containing the private key in. Oth‐
62 erwise the private key will be taken from certfile as well. De‐
63 fault None.
64 smtp_client_key_pass <private key password>
66 Specifies the password for decrypting the private key. Default
67 None.
68 smtp_timeout <seconds>
70 Specifies the number of seconds to wait for SMTP to respond. De‐
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72 smtp_security <security>
74 Specifies the type of secure connection to make. Options are:
75 none, starttls and ssl. The default is none.
76 smtp_admin <address>
78 Specifies the From e-mail address value in the e-mails sent. The
79 default is root@localhost. Bounces will be sent here.
80 smtp_delay <milliseconds>
82 Time to wait, in milliseconds, between each e-mail sent to try
83 to avoid overloading the mail queue. The default is 0.
84 mail_from <address>
86 Specifies the From: e-mail address value in the e-mails sent.
87 The default is noreply@ipadefaultemaildomain. This value can be
88 found by running ipa config-show
89 notify_ttls <list of days>
91 This is the list of days before a password expiration when ipa-
92 epn should notify a user that their password will soon require a
93 reset. If this value is not specified then the default list will
94 be used: 28, 14, 7, 3, 1.
95 msg_subject <subject>
97 Specifies the subject of the e-mails sent. The default is "Your
98 password will expire soon."
99 msg_charset <type>
101 Set the character set of the message. The default is utf8. This
102 will result in he body of the message being base64-encoded.
103 msg_subtype <type>
105 Set the message's MIME sub-content type. The default is plain.
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108 /etc/ipa/epn.conf
109 Configuration file
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112 ipa-epn(1)
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