[Samba] Password expires

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 rudolf.weeber at gmx.de wrote:

> My users get warnings about their passwordss expiring.
> I dont want them to need to change password. I set the Accountpoliicy
> for max. passwd age to 0 but that doesn't affect the expiration date.
> What is the correct way to do it?

This was fixed in eitehr beta3 or rc1.  You need to stop smbd, remove the 
account_policy.tdb, and restart smbd.  The new default is to set the 
must change password field to something like NT_TIME_MAX (0x7fff ffff 
IIRC).




cheers, jerry
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