Since in Kerberos V5 are used 32-bit unix timestamps, setting
maxlife in pwpolicy to values such as 9999 days would cause
integer overflow in krbPasswordExpiration attribute.
This would result into unpredictable behaviour such as users
not being able to log in after password expiration if password
policy was changed (#3114) or new users not being able to log
in at all (#3312).
The timestamp value is truncated to Jan 1, 2038 in ipa-kdc driver.
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3312https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/3114
User always receives the same error message if he changes his password
via "ipa passwd" command and the new password fails configured
password policy. He then has to investigate on his own the actual
reason why was the policy violated. This patch improves our SLAPI PWD
plugins to provide a better error message explaining the violation
reason.
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/2067