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

[Willy Offermans]

Hello Aaron,

To my knowledge, sambaPwdMustChange is obsolete and is simply ignored by
Samba. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 08:30:26AM -0400, Aaron E. wrote:
> 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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