[Samba] pdbedit - can't set password expiry, etc?

Justin samba_list at midaliasteel.com
Tue Aug 2 00:56:40 GMT 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-29 at 14:28, Justin wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> Have recently moved from a machine running 2.2 to a new machine running
> 3.0.10-1. I've just converted the smbpasswd database to tdbsam as I
> understand password ageing etc does not work with smbpasswd. I've set
> the line 'passdb backend = tdbsam' in the smb.conf, restarted the daemon
> and now I'm trying to force a user account to have to change his
> password the next time he logs in. I'm using the command 
> 
>     #pdbedit -u justinh --pwd-must-change-time 0
> 
> and also tried
> 
>     #pdbedit --pwd-must-change-time=0 justinh
> 
> but neither seems to modify the user;
> 
>     # pdbedit -Lv justinh
>     Unix username:        justinh
>     NT username:
>     Account Flags:        [U          ]
>     User SID:             S-1-5-21-179224907-3521905181-1287225574-2032
>     Primary Group SID:    S-1-5-21-179224907-3521905181-1287225574-2201
>     Full Name:            Justin.Hyde
>     Home Directory:       \\agnes\justinh
>     HomeDir Drive:
>     Logon Script:         "logon.bat"
>     Profile Path:         \\agnes\justinh\profile
>     Domain:               MIDALIA
>     Account desc:
>     Workstations:
>     Munged dial:
>     Logon time:           0
>     Logoff time:          Sat, 14 Dec 1901 04:45:51 GMT
>     Kickoff time:         Sat, 14 Dec 1901 04:45:51 GMT
>     Password last set:    Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:12:12 GMT
>     Password can change:  Fri, 29 Jul 2005 13:12:12 GMT
>     Password must change: Sat, 14 Dec 1901 04:45:51 GMT
>     Last bad password   : 0
>     Bad password count  : 0
>     Logon hours         : FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
> 
> 
> Can anyone suggest where I've gone wrong here?
> 
> 
> TIA
> 
> Justin



So nobody can offer a suggestion here?





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