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.
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.
- 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
<private key>
- 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
<private key password>
- 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
ipa config-show
- mail_from_name
<name>
- Specifies the From: name value in the e-mails sent. The default is
IPA-EPN.
- notify_ttls
<list of days>
- 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.
- /etc/ipa/epn.conf
- Configuration file