password never expire issue

[Matthieu Patou]

On 15/04/2010 00:10, Ron García-Vidal wrote:
> I am having a problem where, if the DC has the "password expires" 
> policy set, and a user has "Password Never Expires" checked on his 
> acct, winbind will insist that the users password has expired.
>
> I googles around and found some posts from '06 that talk about this.  
> On Jan 26, 2006, Jerry Carter indicated that the problem was a known 
> bug with pam_winbind.so but had been fixed in version 3.0.21b, but I'm 
> still seeing this behavior in 3.0.24.
>
> I'm running Debian etch with an NT4SP6 PDC.
>
Check if the version of the backports of debian solve your pb, btw it 
seems to me that etch is not supported anymore in terms of security 
updates ....
> -Ron