[Samba] How to get password expiration?

Rowland Penny rpenny at samba.org
Wed Feb 1 20:11:29 UTC 2017


On Wed, 1 Feb 2017 12:20:49 -0700
Jeff Sadowski via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> I was thinking of maybe putting a request update password expire time
> on login and have a system user go find the expire times.
> with ldap or something?
> 
> It could put a file in the users home directory with a timestamp of
> when the user's password expires.
> 
> Ex:
> 
> In the bashrc or tcshrc (the global ones) add a line like so
> 
> touch /tmp/requestpwexpupdate/${USER}
> 
> and have a cronjob the searches for password expire times in ldap and
> removes the request file
> placing a timestamped file with the users expiration in
> ~${USER}/.passwdexp
> 
> but I don't know how to write the ldapsearch to do this.
> 

I don't know if it will help, but I found this, maybe it will point
you in the right direction ;-)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34610020/how-to-get-user-password-expiration-date-from-active-directory

Rowland



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