[Samba] How to change Domain password as normal user?

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Wed Mar 28 07:14:00 UTC 2018


On Wed, 2018-03-28 at 03:09 -0400, Mark Foley via samba wrote:
> 
> Actually, that didn't quite work. It did change the domain password, but didn't reset the
> expiration days. So today, when the previous password was set to expire. My account was locked
> out. I had to log onto the AD/DC as the Domain Administrator and do 'samba-tool user setpassword'.
> 
> Suggestions on how I can get the expiration back to the 'Maximum password age' value?

This sounds very strange.  Are you sure the password changed on the DC?
 Did the msDS-KeyVersionNumber change, did the pwdLastSet change?

Andrew Bartlett

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