[Samba] Unlocking Accounts

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 03:35, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
> Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 
> > Once an account gets the "L" flag set in 
>  > sambaAcctFlags is there a utility way to clear the lock on
>  > the account?  I can clear the sambaBadPasswordCount with
>  > pdbedit -z, but that leaves the account in a
> > locked state.  I don't see any way to use pdbedit or 
>  > smbpassword to unlock an account (although I can
>  > enable/disable an account).
> 
> pdbedit -c='[]' <user> will clear all flags

Removing the 'U' flag is probably a bad idea (breaks some user manager
function at least), so I would suggest 

pdbedit -c='[U]'

or 

pdbedit -c='[UX]'

for the no-expiry flag.

Andrew Bartlett

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