Samba Password Aging Support

[Alexander Remesch]

We would like to have support for password aging in our Win NT network
thats
controlled by a Samba 2.0.5a box (we've tried the CVS-version too). The
idea
is to have the same procedure implemented (being requested to change it
upon
logon) as with a Win NT Server when your password is expired. The source
for
the aging information could be either /etc/shadow or the smbpasswd file
(though I didn't find fields in there that are explicitly dedicated to
contain such information).

Now I have the follwing questions:
1) Is there or will there be support for password aging for NT
Workstations
in Samba in the near future?
2) How do the network packets exchanged during logon between a NT
workstation and a NT domain controller change when the password is
expired
(is it only a small change that indicates the expired password or is it
very
complicated)? Are there any resources/documentations?

Since most work has already been done to achieve above feature (NT
domain
logons are working and changing the Samba and Unix password from your NT
workstation is also working), I believe it could be fairly easy to just
add
the missing link in the logon procedure (recognizing the expired
password
and then sending this info to the NT workstation while branching into
the
already present code for changing the password).

Any help or information on this would be greatly appreciated.

Alexander Remesch