Password expired error on git fetch via SSH for LDAP user

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Summary

git fetch shows Your password expired. Please access GitLab from a web browser to update your password. for a LDAP GitLab account on a self-hosted instance (since GitLab Community Edition 13.12.2). The account has a password expiration in the past (2014-07-24; probably from when it wasn't an LDAP account yet) in GitLab's database (users.password_expires_at). Setting password_expires_at to NULL via gitlab-psql fixed it.

Results of GitLab environment info

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System information
System:		
Current User:	git
Using RVM:	no
Ruby Version:	2.7.2p137
Gem Version:	3.1.4
Bundler Version:2.1.4
Rake Version:	13.0.3
Redis Version:	6.0.12
Git Version:	2.31.1
Sidekiq Version:5.2.9
Go Version:	unknown

GitLab information
Version:	13.12.2
Revision:	d98457affdf
Directory:	/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails
DB Adapter:	PostgreSQL
DB Version:	12.6
URL:		https://*snip*
HTTP Clone URL:	https://*snip*/some-group/some-project.git
SSH Clone URL:	git@*snip*:some-group/some-project.git
Using LDAP:	yes
Using Omniauth:	no

GitLab Shell
Version:	13.18.0
Repository storage paths:
- default: 	/var/opt/gitlab/git-data/repositories
GitLab Shell path:		/opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-shell
Git:		/opt/gitlab/embedded/bin/git

Results of GitLab application Check

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Checking GitLab subtasks ...
Checking GitLab Shell ...
GitLab Shell: ... GitLab Shell version >= 13.18.0 ? ... OK (13.18.0)
Running /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-shell/bin/check
Internal API available: OK
Redis available via internal API: OK
gitlab-shell self-check successful
Checking GitLab Shell ... Finished
Checking Gitaly ...
Gitaly: ... default ... OK
Checking Gitaly ... Finished
Checking Sidekiq ...
Sidekiq: ... Running? ... yes
Number of Sidekiq processes (cluster/worker) ... 1/1
Checking Sidekiq ... Finished
Checking Incoming Email ...
Incoming Email: ... Reply by email is disabled in config/gitlab.yml
Checking Incoming Email ... Finished
Checking LDAP ...
LDAP: ... Server: ldapmain
LDAP authentication... Success
LDAP users with access to your GitLab server (only showing the first 100 results)
User output sanitized. Found 8 users of 100 limit.
Checking LDAP ... Finished
Checking GitLab App ...
Git configured correctly? ... yes
Database config exists? ... yes
All migrations up? ... yes
Database contains orphaned GroupMembers? ... no
GitLab config exists? ... yes
GitLab config up to date? ... yes
Log directory writable? ... yes
Tmp directory writable? ... yes
Uploads directory exists? ... yes
Uploads directory has correct permissions? ... yes
Uploads directory tmp has correct permissions? ... yes
Init script exists? ... skipped (omnibus-gitlab has no init script)
Init script up-to-date? ... skipped (omnibus-gitlab has no init script)
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Redis version >= 5.0.0? ... yes
Ruby version >= 2.7.2 ? ... yes (2.7.2)
Git version >= 2.31.0 ? ... yes (2.31.1)
Git user has default SSH configuration? ... yes
Active users: ... 16
Is authorized keys file accessible? ... yes
GitLab configured to store new projects in hashed storage? ... yes
All projects are in hashed storage? ... yes
Checking GitLab App ... Finished
Checking GitLab subtasks ... Finished

Current Workaround

Execute the following query in gitlab-rails dbconsole:

update users set password_expires_at = null where username='<USERNAME>';

(Extracted from #332455 (comment 594243653))