Forcing Windows Password Change

[Michael L Torrie]

I think you need to use w2k server's poledit.exe to create a policy file
that samba can export to the windows clients.  You can also set this
policy on each machine I think.  But in a PDC situation, you can push out
policy files to the clients.

Michael


On 22 Sep 2001, Thomas E Bruno wrote:

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> I would like to know if there is a way, and how to accomplish this very
> simple task:
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> Can samba force clients to change thier passwords from windows. Like the
> NT way "Your password has expired, please type new password" etc...
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> If there is not support, why isn't there?  this seems to me to be one
> large feature of a PDC!! Especially when removing a winNT/2000 server
> and placing a linux/samba server in it's place!
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