[Samba] Sarbanes-Oxley headaches

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 10:44 +0200, Tony Earnshaw wrote:

> 
> > i am currently using samba version 3.0.7 with smbpasswd.
> > 
> > does the account lockout feature not work with smbpasswd?
> 
> smbpasswd doesn't have anything to do with this, it's used for setting /
> synchronizing passwords. Perhaps you meant smbclient; yes it works both
> for Windows (XP Pro in my case) and smbclient.
> 
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smbpasswd is not just a command but also a backend storage type for user
accounts & passwords.

<http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-
Collection/passdb.html#id2552851>

I gather that OP would be better served by using a tdb or ldap backend.

Craig