Bug 100421

Summary:	user: export password expiration numbers from shadow file
Product:	accountsservice	Reporter:	Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	marius.vollmer, mcatanzaro, rstrode, stefw
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	user: export password expiration numbers from shadow file lib: add getter for expiration policy numbers

Description Ray Strode [halfline] 2017-03-27 17:53:21 UTC

If the desktop wants to display a notification about pending password
expiration it needs some way to query that information from the user.

This commit reads those numbers from shadow and makes them available
to the caller.

Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2017-03-27 17:53:28 UTC

Created attachment 130487 [details] [review]
user: export password expiration numbers from shadow file

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2017-03-27 17:53:39 UTC

Attachment 130487 [details] pushed as 60fb4c4 - user: export password expiration numbers from shadow file

Comment 3 Ray Strode [halfline] 2017-03-27 18:31:29 UTC

Created attachment 130489 [details] [review]
lib: add getter for expiration policy numbers

This commit just adds a sync wrapper function around the new
GetPasswordExpirationPolicy bus method

Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2017-03-27 18:31:37 UTC

Attachment 130489 [details] pushed as f7bffca - lib: add getter for expiration policy numbers

Comment 5 Michael Catanzaro 2017-06-28 21:44:04 UTC

OK halfline, look at this patch :P

 /**
+ * act_user_get_login_history: <-- wrong function name
+ * @user: the user object to query.
+ * @expiration_time: time users passwor expires <-- typo
+ * @last_change_time,
+ * @min_days_between_changes,
+ * @max_days_between_changes,
+ * @days_to_warn,
+ * @days_after_expiration_until_lock)
+ *
+ * Assigns a new email to @user. <-- nope
+ *
+ * Note this function is synchronous and ignores errors.
+ **/
+void
+act_user_get_password_expiration_policy (ActUser *user,

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