epn.conf - Expiring Password Notification configuration file

The epn.conf configuration file is used to set the options for the ipa-epn tool to notify users of upcoming password expiration.

/etc/ipa/epn.conf Configuration file

epn.conf - Expiring Password Notification configuration file

smtp_server <fqdn> Specifies the SMTP server to use. The default is localhost. smtp_port<port> Specifies the SMTP port. The default is 25. smtp_user<user> Specifies the id of the user to authenticate with the SMTP server. Default None. smtp_password<password> Specifies the password for the authorized user. Default None. smtp_client_cert<certificate> Specifies the path to a single file in PEM format containing the certificate. Default None. smtp_client_key<privatekey> Specifies the path to a file containing the private key in. Otherwise the private key will be taken from certfile as well. Default None. smtp_client_key_pass<privatekeypassword> Specifies the password for decrypting the private key. Default None. smtp_timeout<seconds> Specifies the number of seconds to wait for SMTP to respond. Default 60. smtp_security<security> Specifies the type of secure connection to make. Options are: none, starttls and ssl. The default is none. smtp_admin<address> Specifies the From e-mail address value in the e-mails sent. The default is root@localhost. Bounces will be sent here. smtp_delay<milliseconds> Time to wait, in milliseconds, between each e-mail sent to try to avoid overloading the mail queue. The default is 0. mail_from<address> Specifies the From: e-mail address value in the e-mails sent. The default is noreply@ipadefaultemaildomain. This value can be found by running ipaconfig-showmail_from_name<name> Specifies the From: name value in the e-mails sent. The default is IPA-EPN. notify_ttls<listofdays> This is the list of days before a password expiration when ipa-epn should notify a user that their password will soon require a reset. If this value is not specified then the default list will be used: 28, 14, 7, 3, 1. msg_subject<subject> Specifies the subject of the e-mails sent. The default is "Your password will expire soon." msg_charset<type> Set the character set of the message. The default is utf8. This will result in he body of the message being base64-encoded. msg_subtype<type> Set the message's MIME sub-content type. The default is plain.

ipa-epn(1) IPA April 28, 2020 EPN.CONF(5)

/etc/ipa/epn.conf

The configuration options are not case sensitive. The values may be case sensitive, depending on the option. Blank lines are ignored. Lines beginning with # are comments and are ignored. Valid lines consist of an option name, an equals sign and a value. Spaces surrounding equals sign are ignored. An option terminates at the end of a line. Values should not be quoted, the quotes will not be stripped. # Wrong - don't include quotes verbose = "True" # Right - Properly formatted options verbose = True verbose=True Options must appear in the section named [global]. There are no other sections defined or used currently. Options may be defined that are not used by IPA. Be careful of misspellings, they will not be rejected.