Is there anything shown in the system log when the password change date for the Palo Alto firewall administrator account is about to expire?

e.Lee984645 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:49:13 GMT

When setting the password complexity on the Palo Alto firewall, I set only the expiration date to 60 days and locked the account. Is there a way to keep or leave related logs in the system log before the expiration date? If there is any content, please also provide a link to a site where I can refer to it.

Re: Is there anything shown in the system log when the password change date for the Palo Alto firewall administrator account is about to expire?

JayGolf — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:40:07 GMT

Hi @e.Lee984645 ,

If you are using a local administrator account, you can configure an Expiration Warning Period in addition to the Required Password Change Period.

For example, under Device > Setup > Management > Minimum Password Complexity, you can configure:

Required Password Change Period – such as 60 days
Expiration Warning Period – up to 30 days

When the administrator logs in during the configured warning period, PAN-OS will prompt them that the password is approaching expiration and should be changed.

Based on the documented behavior, this warning is presented to the administrator during login rather than being generated as a specific System log event prior to expiration. System/authentication logs can indicate the condition after the password has expired or the account has been locked because of expiration.

You can also configure these values through a Password Profile under Device > Password Profiles if you want the settings applied to specific administrator accounts.

Hope this helps.

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