[Samba] Samba accounts disabled

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Jun 17 19:34:09 GMT 2005


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On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Anthony Hess wrote:

> So that's what is disabling it then, thanks.  Too bad the user account 
> script that we have had for the past few years sets that to zero :)  I 
> guess the behavior must have been different under 2.2.x? (didn't do much 
> with samba back then).

Always helps to read the release notes :-)  This was part of the 
security fix in Samba 3.0.2a.

> Is there any way I can easily reset all of the user accounts using 
> smbpasswd -e instead of scripting some change to the directory server 
> entries?  If I could just get it to enable the accounts without asking 
> me for a user's password I think that would do it.

If you are using an smbpasswd file, then just manually change the last
field.




cheers, jerry
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