[Samba] WinNT Password Change Prompt

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 03:58, John H Terpstra wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Allori Lorenzo wrote:
> 
> > Dear Group,
> >
> > I'm using samba as PDC and all works fine but i want to do a thing that it
> > is not explained in any samba manual i could found in Internet.
> >
> > Under WinNT when you create a new user there is the checkbox that allows
> > the new user to change the password at the first login presenting an
> > automatic prompt to do so.
> >
> > Is any string available to put in smb.conf to do that or some other stuff
> > to make this thing possible?
> 
> This is not possible with samba 2.2.x but we are working on facilities
> that may provide this sometime during the life of samba-3.0.x.

Such facilities are fully operational and have been very useful in my
Samba 3.0alpha based production environment.  I use our pdb_ldap to
administer the system.  The flag for this behavior is setting the
'pwdMustChange' LDAP attribute to 0.

Andrew Bartlett

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Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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