Password changing

[Matthew Geddes]

Kevin Colby wrote:
> 
> Kristyan Osborne wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know if it is possible to force a password change on login
> > on a NT4 WS, when the PDC is a 2.0.7 samba server.
> 
> Well, the last time this was asked, I said I recalled it being a
> function of the password storage mechanism, not the server process.
> I understood that the smbpasswd file did not support this, and
> thereby Samba did not normally.  I think I heard that if you were
> using an LDAP backend you _might_ be able to trigger this, but
> I can't confirm this.
> 
> No ever corrected me the last time I said this, so if this is
> wrong, I hope someone will speak up now.

I am unsure about stable samba, but using LDAP with Samba TNG does work.

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Matthew Geddes
Network Manager
Xavier College
Gawler, SA

...And by the way, Lars Kneschke's Samba TNG FAQ is at
http://www.kneschke.de/projekte/samba_tng/faq/index.php3