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

[Christopher Whitehead]

Was having similar issues with enforce password complexity.  Setting just
doesn't seem to stick.  Will have to do some research to figure out what is
going on.

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Aaron E. <ssureshot at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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<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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