[Samba] Change password expiry date for ALL users?

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Wed Jun 6 13:41:31 GMT 2007


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Dave Ewart wrote:
> On Wednesday, 06.06.2007 at 12:50 +0200, Andreas Gredler wrote:
> 
>> I want to set the expiry date for passwords for all users with one
>> command. As --pwd-must-change-time only works for a single user and
>> policy settings are not applied after a change, I was wondering how to
>> solve this. Is the only way to write a script which runs "pdbedit
>> --pwd-must-change-time..." for every user?
> 
> Depending on your password backend, it may be 
> easier to attack *that* instead?  It would be fairly
> straightforward for LDAP, for example.

Samba 3.0.25 generates the must change time based on
the policy setting so you only need to change the policy
to for example "one day"





jerry
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