[Samba] Password expiration

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Sep 25 21:21:01 GMT 2002


Darin Bawden wrote:
> 
> Well, now that my feet are wet, I thought I would ask another, hopefully
> less confusing question.  As I said in the confusing email about printing,
> I've set Samba to be a PDC.  What I'm wondering is if I can setup the
> users' passwords to expire after a specific time frame?  If so, how do I
> get it to warn users ahead of time?

You can use Samba 3.0 and a backend like ldapsam, as it will inform the
remote OS at logon time, which gives the use warning.  (2.2 can do this
much)

3.0 adds the ability to enforce this warning, and actually lock poeple
out until they change it.

Andrew Bartlett

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