[Samba] Samba 3 Password Ageing and History

Adam Williams adam at morrison-ind.com
Thu Nov 13 12:34:59 GMT 2003


> > The minimum and maximum password age parameters are working as expected, but the password history parameter appears to be being ignored.
> > Has anyone been able to get this to work?  Is my assumption (documentation on this is difficult to find) 
> that setting password history to 3 prevents the same password being reused within 3 
> password changes correct?
> It is not currently implemented.   There is interest on the
> samba-technical list in fixing this however.

Really!  Because we are using it here. We set the value to 24.  Users
get a popup saying they can't reuse a previous password,  then they set
it to something else and it works.




More information about the samba mailing list