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

[Aaron E.]

Sounds like you've checked mostly all except your ldap backend...
Check your LDAP DB for... (they will be in nix timestamp)

sambaPasswordCanChange
sambaPasswordLastSet
sambaPasswordMustChange

setup smbldap-tools package

On 10/13/2011 11:00 PM, Jeffrey Chan wrote:
> 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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