[Samba] passwd expire issues / shadow

[Terry Davis]

Anyone have any help for this?  Thank you!!


  >tdavis at birddog.com wrote:
  >>
  >> Hello!
  >>
  >> I want to be able to force my users to change passwords every so often.
  >>     Does samba honor any shadow settings like this?  If so, mind
  >> pointing me in the right direction or giving me any advice.  I will
  >> ultimately want to get this information out of ldap which the pam 
module
  >> should take care of (hopefully).

  >Set Samba to 'obey pam restrictions = yes' and setup the
/etc/pam.d/samba file.

  >Then Samba will (even for encrypted logins) check with the 'account'
module listed.

  >Unfortunetly even with things like LDAP SAM backend, samba only honers
this via PAM.

  >Andrew Bartlett

  >--
  >Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
  >Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
  >Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
  >http://samba.org     http://build.samba.org     http://hawkerc.net

Well, does the windows client get any notification of this via samba?
This would be neat.

-- 
Terry Davis
Systems Administrator
BirdDog Solutions, Inc.
(402) 829-6059