[Samba] Samba 4 Password Policies

Viktor Trojanovic viktor at troja.ch
Mon Feb 11 21:21:03 UTC 2019


The pw policy GPO is applied to the domain controller itself. That only 
works if the DC is a windows machine, though. So, no, no workaround for 
this, use samba-tool.

Viktor

On February 11, 2019 21:36:56 Vladimir via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I am relative new to samba 4, not so new to Samba, but I have a problem
> with password policies.
>
> So I set a password policy (Maximum password age) in RSAT for the Default
> Domain Policy, but this policy was not applied to my domain, even after the
> command gpupdate /all and after rebooting the samba server. (I am using
> samba version 4.9.0)
>
> So I discovered in the samba server that the command:
> 'samba-tool domain passwordsettings show'
> was showing 45 day for the Maximum password age, and that was the value
> active for my domain.
>
> My questions are:
>
> Can I use the GPO to set the password policies, or should I always use
> samba-tools??
>
> Can I disable this behavior and let the GPO that I have set take the
> control to these policies??
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Vladimir.
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