Logging "logon time" in the ldap directory

Gerald Carter jerry at samba.org
Mon Feb 4 08:37:33 GMT 2002


On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Matthew Geddes wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002 mmessaoudi at vinci-construction.com wrote:
> 
> >>     Still with my samba 2.2.2 (with ldapsam), the logon time was never
> >>updated in the directory;
> 
> Weren't the logontime/logofftime attributes the equivalent of the 
> Windows NT account parameters that determine (based on time) when the 
> user is supposed to be allowed to log in (as opposed to the time the 
> user last logged in)?

It is iunclear really.  Because two parameters cannot specify
all the combinations of times and days.  Wrong data structure really.
But this was my impression as well (i've ignored it for the most part).
I think we will need to revisit the SAM_ACCOUNT fields in 3.0.















chau, jerry
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