[Samba] Smba 4, looking for a command to show the password expiration date

[Rowland Penny]

On 08/05/15 12:49, Mario Pio Russo wrote:
> Hi all
>
> just going back to this, Steve can you please expalin where did you take
> this number from? 11644473600
>
> that seems not to work correctly on my system so I was lookin g how to
> tailor down the right value
>
> thanks
>
>
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>
> Mario Pio Russo, System Admin SWG IT Services Dublin, Phone & FAX: +353 1
> 815 2236, eMail: mariopiorusso at ie.ibm.com
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> From:	Mario Pio Russo/Ireland/IBM at IBMIE
> To:	Steve Thompson <smt at vgersoft.com>
> Cc:	samba at lists.samba.org, samba-bounces at lists.samba.org
> Date:	06/05/2015 14:44
> Subject:	Re: [Samba] Smba 4, looking for a command to show the password
>              expiration date
> Sent by:	samba-bounces at lists.samba.org
>
>
>
> great thanks Steve
> ___________________________________________________________________________________________
>
>
> Mario Pio Russo, System Admin SWG IT Services Dublin, Phone & FAX: +353 1
> 815 2236, eMail: mariopiorusso at ie.ibm.com
> IBM Ireland Product Distribution Limited registered in Ireland with number
> 92815. Registered Office: IBM House, Shelbourne Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4
>
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>
>
>
> From:		 Steve Thompson <smt at vgersoft.com>
> To:		 Mario Pio Russo/Ireland/IBM at IBMIE
> Cc:		 samba at lists.samba.org
> Date:		 06/05/2015 14:25
> Subject:		 Re: [Samba] Smba 4, looking for a command to show the
> password
>              expiration date
> Sent by:		 samba-bounces at lists.samba.org
>
>
>
> On Wed, 6 May 2015, Mario Pio Russo wrote:
>
>> I am developing a tool in perl to run on my sabma4-DC. This tool must
> check
>> the password exp date and send a reminder when quite close. Now in order
> to
>> do that, I need a command to extract the expiration date from samba 4.
> Extract the value of the password lifetime into the LIFETIME variable:
>
>   		 		  LIFETIME=`samba-tool domain passwordsettings show
> | \
>   		 		  		 		  grep "^Maximum password
> age (days):" | awk '{print
> $5}'`
>
> and then, for the user in question, extract the value of pwdLastSet into
> LASTSET (perhaps from ldbsearch), and then:
>
>   		 		  LASTSET=$((LASTSET/10000000))
>   		 		  LASTSET=$((LASTSET-11644473600))
>   		 		  EXPIRES=$((LASTSET+3600*24*LIFETIME))
>   		 		  EXPIRESSTR=`date -d @$EXPIRES`
>   		 		  echo "Password expires $EXPIRESSTR"
>
> -Steve
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The number is correct, have a look here:

http://www.adminsys.ch/2013/07/31/convert-active-directory-pwdlastset-attribute-readable-time/

Rowland