[Samba] Samba 3 Password Ageing and History

[Tony Caddies]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Adam Williams" <adam at morrison-ind.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba 3 Password Ageing and History


> > > The minimum and maximum password age parameters are working as
expected, but the password history parameter appears to be being ignored.
> > > Has anyone been able to get this to work?  Is my assumption
(documentation on this is difficult to find)
> > that setting password history to 3 prevents the same password being
reused within 3
> > password changes correct?
> > It is not currently implemented.   There is interest on the
> > samba-technical list in fixing this however.
>
> Really!  Because we are using it here. We set the value to 24.  Users
> get a popup saying they can't reuse a previous password,  then they set
> it to something else and it works.

Adam,

Thanks for the response.  Could you let me know the steps you went through
to set this up in case there is something that I missed?

Much appreciated
Tony