[Samba] Classic upgrade and forced password change...

[Marco Gaiarin]

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> You will probably be better off using a later version of Samba, 4.2 is
> EOL as far as Samba is concerned. You can easily do this by going here:
> http://apt.van-belle.nl/

Thanks for the link. Could be sufficient to use 'backported' samba
package, eg, samba from squeeze?


> > There's some way to circumvent it?
> It all depends if you are trying to change the passwords after the new
> AD domain is created, or during the upgrade.

After, after... sorry, i've not specified it...


> the domain is up and running, you can use another samba-tool command:
> samba-tool domain passwordsettings set --complexity=off

...apart that samba-tool in 4.2 seems does not have a --complexity=off
parameters, you mean i've to turn off password complexity, do a
password change, and the restore it (i suppose --complexity=on)?

There's really no way to set/force a password?!

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