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

Rowland Penny rowlandpenny at googlemail.com
Fri May 8 10:33:14 MDT 2015


On 08/05/15 16:20, Mario Pio Russo wrote:
> thanks Rowland!
>
> btw, when will  samba 4.2.2 released? looking foward to it! (I need the bug
> of the RDP fixed :D)
>
> 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
> 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:	Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny at googlemail.com>
> To:	samba at lists.samba.org
> Date:	08/05/2015 12:59
> Subject:	Re: [Samba] Smba 4, looking for a command to show the password
>              expiration date
> Sent by:	samba-bounces at lists.samba.org
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> 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
>>
>>
>>
> ___________________________________________________________________________________________
>
>> 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:		 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
>> (Embedded image moved to file: pic38171.gif)
>>
>>
>>
>> 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
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well, if you look here: 
https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Release_Planning_for_Samba_4.2

It says 27th May, that is all I know, I am just a user like your self :-)


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