[Samba] Password expiration

[Chuck Theobald]

Hi,

One way to avoid password expiry is to set the sambaPwdMustChange attribute 
of each account to 2147483647.  This way, the password will last until 
sometime in 2038.

Chuck


At 08:37 AM 9/6/2005, Jacob Elder wrote:
>But how do I just disable password expiration completely? Isn't that what 
>the X
>flag is supposed to do in sambaAcctFlags?
>
>--
>Jacob Elder
>
>
>Quoting Matthias Spork <hallo at matthiasspork.de>:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>Jacob Elder schrieb:
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>I still can't figure out why my users' passwords are expiring. Ever since we
>>>switched to LDAP, passwords expire every 14 days. Here is an example 
>>>LDAP user
>>>entry:
>>
>>You can set password-age to 60 days by typing
>>#> pdbedit -P "maximum password age" -C 5007600
>>
>>Please look at this Thread:
>>
>>http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2005-June/106338.html
>>
>>matze
>
>
>
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Chuck Theobald
System Administrator
The Robert and Beverly Lewis Center for Neuroimaging
University of Oregon
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