[Samba] Password Aging Policies - SAMBA

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Apr 4 13:21:24 GMT 2003


On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 07:15, John H Terpstra wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, MARK LICHTENBERG wrote:
> 
> > I am new to SAMBA. I am using it with LINUX and I love it! Nice change
> > from you know who.
> >
> > I am sorry if this is a lame question, but I am setting up a Primary
> > Domain Controller and a Backup Domain Controller. All the clients are
> > Windows 2K or XP. I need the clients to reset their passwords every 30
> > days. I am having a hard time locating a procedure to set this feature.
> > LINUX has 'chage' but that does not seem to apply to SAMBA.
> >
> > Does anyone know how I can set up a policy for my SAMBA clients. to
> > force them to change their passwords? I hope so, because I really want
> > to use LINUX/SAMBA for my domain controllers, and this is my last
> > hurdle.
> 
> This is something that may make it into the Samba-3.0.0 code branch but is
> not available with Samba-2.2.x.

Already implemented in Samba 3.0, for pdb_ldap, pdb_tdbsam.

Andrew Bartlett

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Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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