[Samba] change password on 1st signon

fname lname larskman at gmail.com
Tue Aug 29 04:56:10 GMT 2006


oh, last thing is there a way to make this setting default so
everything I create an user it auto flags the person to change
password on signon?

On 8/29/06, fname lname <larskman at gmail.com> wrote:
> ok, done! thanks!
>
> On 8/29/06, Guido Lorenzutti <guido at lorenzutti.com.ar> wrote:
> > pdbedit -i smbpasswd -e tdbsam
> > This ONLY migrate your smbpasswd to tdbsam. You must first take down the
> > samba server.
> > Now backup your smbpasswd to another directory.
> > Know, modify the smb.conf:
> >
> > There it says "passdb backend = smbpasswd" just put the tdbsam instead
> > of smbpasswd.
> >
> > Before you start up the samba daemon again, you can do pdbedit -Lv
> > username to see if everything is OK.
> > If this works, start up the daemon and everything should be OK.
> >
> >
> >
> > fname lname wrote:
> > > Do you have an link to update to tbsam?
> > >
> > > On 8/28/06, Guido Lorenzutti <guido at lorenzutti.com.ar> wrote:
> > >> oh I don't remember... long time ago.
> > >> I don't think so, If I remember correctly, you need tdbsam to do this.
> > >> If you don't have tdbsam, you must use the standard unix tools,
> > >> /etc/shadow.
> > >>
> > >> Update to tdbsam, is trivial to do that.
> > >>
> > >> fname lname wrote:
> > >> > Does this work with the standard smbpasswd file?
> > >> >
> > >> > On 8/28/06, Guido Lorenzutti <guido at lorenzutti.com.ar> wrote:
> > >> >> fname lname wrote:
> > >> >> > Is there a way to enable user to change password on first signon?
> > >> >> pdbedit --pwd-must-change-time 0 username
> > >> >>
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> >
>


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