[Samba] Followup re: pam_winbind and "never expires" passwords

[Bill Greene]

More info on the problem that users could access shares, but not login, 
if their passwords were "expired" by days, but had "password never 
expires" flagged.

During further experimentation, I discovered (I'm not a Windows person) 
that in addition to flagging a user as "password never expires", there 
is an account policy flag specifying the same thing globally.  If the 
account policy flag is set, the users can log in; if only the per-user 
flag is set, they cannot.

So to refine my previous statement, it appears pam_winbind ignores the 
per-user "password never expires" flag.

-- bill

(I'm reading the list in summary, so my apologies if someone else has 
already commented on this.)


Bill Greene
Rubicon Group Ltd.
Oak Brook Illinois USA