Python Utility for manipulate the password properties (Samba4)

[Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer]

Hi Sassy,

if you are comfortable with it: please choose another topic. Well, there 
would be the task to start a GPO client for s4 itself (especially also 
for the password policies) - but for sure it isn't that easy to do. You 
can find nice topics in bugzilla, in the wiki or just ask us. E.g. have 
you some experience with SMB (file sharing) server code? There would be 
major work for s4 to do. Or do you know something about LDB modules 
programming? But regarding the python tools we ship at the moment in s4 
I think they're quite okay. If you still like to work on further 
projects using python on s4 just ask Jelmer. He leads all those projects 
(python bindings, swat for s4, sambaGTK tools...)

Matthias

Sassy Natan schrieb:
> 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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