[Samba] Samba4 and group policy password policy

[Andrew Dumaresq]

Hi,

I am not sure if this a bug or a feature with Samba, but what is 
happening here is the LDAP server has the complexities in LDAP, and 
changing the Group Policy doesn't seem to have any impact (at least I 
wasn't able to fix it).  I ended up having to manually edit the LDAP 
server.

Sadly I can't remeber how I modified ldap now.  It was months ago.  
Probably it would be easier to do modify the python script at install time.

--Andrew


On 05/15/2010 02:42 AM, Christophe Deze wrote:
>
> Hello
> I had the same problem during my test of samba.
> I disabled complexity requierement ...
> I can't change password with a simple one.
>
>
> I miss something ?
>
> thanks
>
> Le 14/04/2010 14:31, Santiago Perez Agra a écrit :
>>
>> Hi every one, I'm testing Samba4 with the guide posted on the wiki
>> http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO#Step_1:_Download_Samba4, 
>> all
>> our tests results ok but one of them crash:
>>
>> Group Policy works ok on a new organizational unit in deploy security 
>> task
>> over desktop users but when i create a new user over this ou, with the
>> dsa.msc group policy>  Computer Configuration>  Windows Settings>  
>> Security
>> Settings>  Account Policies>  Password Policy>  Password must need
>> complexity requirement set as "Not defined" but when dsa.msc asks you 
>> about
>> the new password of the user it answer that you need to meet this
>> restrictions, this can be avoid with the linux samba command net newuser
>> ... but what does happen when a user is asked about to change your 
>> password
>> because password age is next to expire ...
>>
>> Our goal is to replace all windows XP desktops to ubuntu desktops but we
>> have a number of desktops that is not possible to change XP so we 
>> need to
>> implement an AD alternative and Samba 4 is perfect, with group policy
>> support now.
>>
>> Thanks a lot in advance to all of you
>>
>>
>