[Samba] Password expiry

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 15:49, Freeman, Peter (ERHS) wrote:
> 
> Hi all
> 
> Just a query on the capabilities of the upcoming v3 release.
> 
> Will password expiry capabilities be implemented in a default
> smbpasswd installation without resorting to LDAP?

Only via PAM, in the same way 2.2 supports that.

I do not intend to change the default semantics of smbpasswd, because
that would cause too much disruption to existing sites.  However, we do
need to look at some nasty issues with migration to LDAP, which might
resolve this issue in some way.

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
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/attachments/20021105/619d2c35/attachment.bin