In Samba 2.2.7a, 'password expire time' appears to be being ignored. When I run 'smbstatus' it says: Unknown parameter encountered: "password expire time" Ignoring unknown parameter "password expire time" What should I be using to force a password change every n days? Regards, -- Adam Smith Information Technology Officer SAGE Automation Ltd. adam.smith@sageautomation.com http://www.sageautomation.com Phone: (08) 8276 0703 Fax: (08) 8276 0799 Mobile: 0414 895 273
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 21:32, Adam Smith wrote:> In Samba 2.2.7a, 'password expire time' appears to be being ignored. > > When I run 'smbstatus' it says: > > Unknown parameter encountered: "password expire time" > Ignoring unknown parameter "password expire time" > > What should I be using to force a password change every n days?samba3 I don't believe password expiry is supported in samba2 with a normal backend. brad -- Bradley W. Langhorst <brad@langhorst.com>
> > In Samba 2.2.7a, 'password expire time' appears to be being ignored. > > Unknown parameter encountered: "password expire time" > > Ignoring unknown parameter "password expire time" > > > > What should I be using to force a password change every n days? > samba3 > I don't believe password expiry is supported in samba2 with a normal > backend.it is support with samba compiled with ldap support .. but however there seem to be some troubles with it .. the user is forced to change the password but smbd has some problem when trying to get the gid of the use (always returns -1, and then smbd dies) until the profile is not loaded .. however the user is able to change the password later .. -- mfg. Georg Glas Hollomey Consultants GmbH phone: +4331681139362 fax: +433168113934
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Georg Glas wrote:> to be some troubles with it .. the user is forced to change the password > but smbd has some problem when trying to get the gid of the use (always > returns -1, and then smbd dies) until the profile is not loaded .. > however the user is able to change the password later ..Fixed in 2.2.8pre1 cheers, jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hewlett-Packard ------------------------- http://www.hp.com SAMBA Team ---------------------- http://www.samba.org GnuPG Key ---- http://www.plainjoe.org/gpg_public.asc "You can never go home again, Oatman, but I guess you can shop there." --John Cusack - "Grosse Point Blank" (1997) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/ iD8DBQE+R+mHIR7qMdg1EfYRAmG4AKCYrGvL68iFwnbV/2BM4ki5JFXLtgCg5u42 tt5E+ZlkxDcaFYqhEShsqDQ=qBvl -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----