[Samba] sambaRefuseMachinePwdChange policy

Eric Roseme eroseme at emonster.rose.hp.com
Tue Mar 24 20:56:55 GMT 2009


Frank wrote:
> Hi,
> we have a couple of Linux RHEL 5 samba servers in a domain, one as PDC 
> and the other as BDC, and both with LDAP backends
> samba version is 3.0.28-1
> We want pc clients can't change their machine password using 
> sambaRefuseMachinePwdChange policy, so we set it to 1 in LDAP
> But pc clients still can change their passwords, and we don't see any 
> acces to sambaRefuseMachinePwdChange attribute on LDAP logs.
> Is it not used in this version yet? Must we do something special to use it?
> 
I saw the same thing in August of 2007:

http://marc.info/?l=samba&m=118772246625319&w=2

Which was never replied to.

Eric Roseme




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