[Samba] Setting "password must change" for more than one user

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 05:02, Fabien Chevalier wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm using Samba 3 with ldapsam_compat and i have a bunch of users (~ 150).
> I'm trying to find a way to set 'password must change' attribute to a given value to all users of my domain, so
> that all be forced to reset their passwords at the same time.
> 
> Is there an "easy" way to do that, better than editing ldap database "by hand" or writing a custom script?
> I looked at pdbedit, smbpasswd, smbldap-tools, and no...nothing seems to cope with it...

Administrators with large LDAP sites soon become very familiar with
Net::LDAP and perl scripting :-)

It's really not that hard... ;-)

(and yes, I know ldap can be a real pain - the benefit is that you *can*
do this kind of manipulation, directly on the backend)

Andrew Bartlett

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