Password history checks
Andrew Bartlett
abartlet at samba.org
Fri Dec 4 03:21:14 UTC 2015
On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 15:50 +0100, Jérémie Courrèges-Anglas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> a client recently asked us about the password policy settings they
> could
> enforce in their Samba 4 AD domain.
>
> It *seems* that one of their wishes can't be fulfilled right now: the
> password history check[1]. This is supposed to prevent users from
> reusing the same passwords. Samba 4 is able to store up to 24
> previous
> passwords, but it doesn't seem to check for password reuse when a
> user
> changes his credentials.
>
> If this feature is indeed not implemented, maybe it is on someone's
> roadmap?
See samba-tool domain passwordsettings
What we don't support is reading it from a GPO (that is much harder).
Thanks,
Andrew Bartlett
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Andrew Bartlett
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team https://samba.org
Samba Development and Support, Catalyst IT
https://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba
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