[Samba] Setting password expiration policy

Thomas Harold thomas-lists at nybeta.com
Tue Jun 18 05:07:01 MDT 2013


On 5/13/2013 11:23 AM, Gerry Reno wrote:
> Can I use samba-tool to globally set passwords to never expire like this:
>
>      /usr/local/samba/bin/samba-tool domain passwordsettings set --max-pwd-age=0
>
>
> Or  do I have to set max age to some positive value and set expiration in ADUC when creating each user as "Password
> never expires"?
>
>

My assumption would be that since the allowed range is only 0-999 for 
that argument that a value of zero would be "don't expire".  But I'm 
also curious as the Samba4 wiki doesn't have much to say on the subject.




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