[Samba] password expiring

[Thomas Otto]

ok. now i know how to set it to 30 days...
is there a limit or a number to set it to unlimited?

cu Thomas

jean-marc pouchoulon wrote:
> pdbedit -v  -P  'maximum password age'  -C 2592000 
> ( to set Thirty days before expiration , -C in seconds... The first time
> I set it to 300 seconds thinking in days, my users don't like ... )
> To see the expiration's date : 
> pdbedit -v user
> Yo have
> Password must change: sam, 08 nov 2003 09:59:03 GMT
> 
> I think This is set when user is changing his password. 
> 
> Jean-Marc
> 
> Password must change: sam, 08 nov 2003 09:59:03 GMT
> -----Message d'origine-----
> De :
> samba-bounces+jean-marc.pouchoulon=ac-montpellier.fr at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-bounces+jean-marc.pouchoulon=ac-montpellier.fr at lists.samba
> .org] De la part de Thomas Otto
> Envoyé : mardi 14 octobre 2003 11:45
> À : samba at lists.samba.org
> Objet : [Samba] password expiring
> 
> 
> Hi List!
> 
> i am using samba 3.0 with ldap. but when my users log on the get an 
> warning that their password will expiring in the nexte days. how do i
> turn off these password expiring functionality, so that the 
> user never have to change their password?
> 
> best regards,
> Thomas Otto


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