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

[Jeffrey Chan]

I'm using OpenLDAP as backend.


On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:16 PM, 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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