This might too much of an edge case for most people, but we have a cron job which synchronises user accounts from a remote server. When an account has a role which matches the password policy we have setup (accounts with certain admin roles only), and the account is due for a password expiry, password_policy_user_update() creates a watchdog message. This message assumes the active user is a real person, which isn't the case during cron, and so $user->name does not exist and causes an extra watchdog message.

The attached patch fixes this by providing an alternative watchdog message when the global uid is zero.

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#6 password_policy-6.x-1.x-add_watchdog_message_for_programmatic_forced_password_changes-6.patch1.33 KBaohrvetpv
#3 password_policy-7.x-1.x-add_watchdog_message_for_programmatic_forced_password_changes-3.patch1.19 KBaohrvetpv
password_policy-cron-expiry-7.x-1.12.patch1.21 KBpaulbeaney

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paulbeaney created an issue. See original summary.

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Status: Active » Needs review

Setting to 'Needs review' to run automated tests.

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new password_policy-7.x-1.x-add_watchdog_message_for_programmatic_forced_password_changes-3.patch1.19 KB

Added a comment to explain the !$user->uid condition. Going to go ahead and commit if tests pass, but please let me know if it is inaccurate.

Reading the Password Policy code I have often wondered the purpose of various conditions so I want to make sure to document them going forward.

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Version: 7.x-1.12 » 7.x-1.x-dev

  • AohRveTPV committed 6129eca on 7.x-1.x authored by paulbeaney 
    Issue #2622934 by AohRveTPV, paulbeaney: Updates to user account during...
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Version: 7.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-1.x-dev
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new password_policy-6.x-1.x-add_watchdog_message_for_programmatic_forced_password_changes-6.patch1.33 KB

Status: Needs review » Needs work

The last submitted patch, 6: password_policy-6.x-1.x-add_watchdog_message_for_programmatic_forced_password_changes-6.patch, failed testing.

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It tested the D6 patch on D7 for some reason. Retesting. Maybe you can't change the version in the same comment as you set a patch to 'Needs review', if you want the tests to run on the new version.

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Neither 7.x-2.x nor 8.x-3.x generate a notice like this one, so this change in non-applicable to those branches.

  • AohRveTPV committed 5e39060 on 6.x-1.x authored by paulbeaney 
    Issue #2622934 by AohRveTPV, paulbeaney: Updates to user account during...
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Status: Needs work » Fixed

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.