[Samba] X flag in smbpasswd?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2003-05-24 at 01:39, John H Terpstra wrote:
> On Thu, 22 May 2003, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
> 
> > mksmbpasswd.sh does not create accounts with the X flag in the password
> > flags field. Does this X matter, and if so, what does it mean? It's not in
> > the man page.
> 
> The 'X' flag is not used at this time, but please note that with Samba-3
> there can be many passwd back ends - only smbpasswd (a legacy database) is
> plain text based. Use of mksmbpasswd.sh should be discouraged.

The X flag is however used by some clients, who use it to decide on the
display of the 'must change password in x days' message.  We now set it
by default to prevent our Win2k clients displaying this message, as we
don't enforce it in Samba 2.2.

Andrew Bartlett

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Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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