Python Utility for manipulate the password properties (Samba4)

[Sassy Natan]

Hmmm, how nice - thank you

Can I provide more help on this issue?

10x
Sassy

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer <
mwallnoefer at yahoo.de> wrote:

> Hi Sassy,
>
> this utility for setting the domain password policy does exist now and was
> written by myself during the summer. It's called "pwsettings".
>
> Matthias
>
> Sassy Natan schrieb:
>
>  Hi all
>>
>> On February 2009, Andrew ask for volunteer to write a small python script
>> to
>> manipulate the password properties (such
>> as minPwdAge, maxPwdAge, minPwdLength and pwdProperties). You can see it
>> here:
>>
>> http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2009-February/063050.html
>>
>>
>> I want to write this small utility by myself, cause all my users seems to
>> forget every time there complex password, and cant change to there default
>> one since there is password history time.
>>
>> I have 10 users who drive me crazy - so I think it is about time to write
>> this one.
>> I use Samba4 alpha8 with openldap backend. - Works great for 6 mouth now
>> :-)
>>
>>
>> Andrew, Can u please provide a starting point, where should I change the
>> parameters? Is it only require to change some attribute in the AD objects?
>> If this is a python script them I think I can handle this, but if it
>> requires C/C++ Knowledge then I might need help here
>>
>> Let me know
>> And thanks again for everything
>>
>> The new Replication (Samba4<->Samab4) (Samab4<->AD) is amazing - I don't
>> know how to u know this stuff
>>
>> Sassy :-)
>>
>>
>>
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