Instances that trigger a user password change

Products

• CA Automic Workload Automation - Automation Engine
• CA Automic One Automation
• Automic SaaS

Issue/Introduction

After updating the PWD_*, the password prompt to change the password is popping up in some clients for some users, but not others.

Resolution

As explained in this knowledge article, users will not be required to change their password if PWD_* settings are put in place in UC_CLIENT_SETTINGS unless one of the following is also true:

• The user's setting "User must change password at next login" is checked
• The user's password is set to the value in PWD_DEFAULT (default is "pass" if no PWD_DEFAULT is set) set in UC_CLIENT_SETTINGS - this will happen if the user has never logged in before and PWD_DEFAULT has not changed since user creation
• The user changed their password over x days ago where x is the amount of days set in PWD_AGE_MAX in UC_CLIENT_SETTINGS

The above three points apply at all time.  When a user falls outside these parameters, they will not be prompted for a new password.