Unable to reset a password of an account, if the account is a part of a IPA user-defined password policy and max lifetime is set to 8000

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Issue

Unable to reset a password of an account, if the account is a part of a IPA user-defined password policy and max lifetime is set to 8000.

After resetting the IPA password via IPA GUI , next time user logs in it prompts for a new password.
When the user try to login with the new password , it prompts user to change the password again and this keeps going in a loop.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
  • 389-ds-base-1.2.11.15-50.el6_6.x86_64
  • ipa-server-3.0.0-42.el6.x86_64

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