[Samba] quality of password protection

[Matthias Spork]

Hello,

of.mueller at t-online.de schrieb:
> We need a solution for our samba server  about password regulations. We
> want to force the user to change the password in a defined timetable and
> to give the password a defined minimum of length. Do we need a special
> software modul or is there an another possibility in connection with
> Suse 9.2 and Sambaserver 3.0923?

Take a look at

# man pdbedit

'User must change password after 60 days (days*3600*24)
# pdbedit -P "maximum password age" -C 5184000

'Mininum password length to 5 characters
pdbedit -P "min password length" -C 5


matze