[Samba] Password expiration

[John H Terpstra]

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 10:33, Chuck Theobald wrote:
> 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.

Where did you obtain this information? Please quote your source so that those 
who search the mailing list can go back to the source for the next tid-bit 
they need to know.

Thanks.

- John T.

>
> 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
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