January 8, 2017August 28, 2016 by Andrew Fore 
As part of the rebuild on my Plex Media Server using CentOS 7, I had intended to configure Google Authenticator but hadn’t gotten around to doing it yet. As I got into the process recently I discovered that many of the steps that I had used when configuring my CentOS 6 Digital Ocean droplet were out of date to the point of uselessness.
I also discovered that most of the guides that I found either relied on the older 1.0 code release which was also outdated or used a unknown RPM repo. As such I decided to write up the process that I followed to use the code downloaded from the official GitHub repository.
NOTE: If you are doing this in an enterprise setting, it is likely that your company has particular settings and restrictions that you may need to adhere to (e.g., not running things as the root user). Also, please note that all of my examples use the CentOS defaults unless specifically noted.
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Categories CentOS, Google, Security, Tips n Tricks, UncategorizedTags 2FALeave a comment January 8, 2017March 18, 2015 by Andrew Fore
In many cases your enterprise Active Directory will not involve too many domains, in fact it is quite common for an Active Directory implementation to only include one domain. In some cases, however, when you have the unfortunate situation of having a username in multliple domains with differing policies on password expiration it is useful to be able to know when your password, or that of another user will expire. Here is an easy way to accomplish this from the command line.
For the current active user
[code language=”bash”] net user /domain
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For a different user
[code language=”bash”] net user /domain _username_here_
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Here is an example of the output:
[code language=”bash”] User name afore Full Name Andrew Fore Comment User’s comment Country code 000 (System Default) Account active Yes
Account expires Never
Password last set 1/29/2015 4:38:37 PM Password expires 4/29/2015 4:38:37 PM Password changeable 1/29/2015 4:38:37 PM Password required Yes
User may change password Yes
Workstations allowed All Logon script User profile Home directory
Last logon 3/18/2015 3:27:55 PM
Logon hours allowed All
Local Group Memberships Global Group memberships *VMWare Admins *Domain Users *Staff
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If you notice there is a lot of useful information regarding the user account here, but of particular interest in my situation was the value of Password expires since I was trying to ensure that I got my password reset prior to the policy setting so that I would not find myself locked out over the weekend that I went on call when the Helpdesk would be closed.
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