[Samba] Password expires every month even though 'Password Must Change' is set to 'never' (Samba+LDAP)

[Marco Ciampa]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:15:16PM +0800, Jeffrey Chan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've posted this a month ago but haven't gotten a reply. Can anyone please
> help?
> 
> - Jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Jeffrey Chan <goofrider at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Since a few months ago Samba ask each of our users to change password at
> > log on every month and I have not been able to disable it.
> >
> > I found this page and follow the instructions:
> >
> >
> > http://playingwithsid.blogspot.com/2010/12/change-samba-password-expiry-setting.html
> >
> > The default ‘Password Must Change’ policy was set to never and pdbedit
> > shows ‘Password Must Change: never’ for each user, yet the passwords still
> > get expire once a month.
> >
> > Can anyone please give me some pointers?
> >
> > - Jeff

Just a hint (maybe wrong...)

obey pam restrictions = No

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Marco Ciampa

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