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

[Aaron E.]

Just cuirous are you using pam or ldap backend?

On 10/12/2011 09:22 AM, Marco Ciampa wrote:
> 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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