samba - Mar 2004 - No error on change to password below configured length

Hello!

Our users change their passwords using the original Win2K password
change mechanisms (Ctrl+Alt+Del -> Change Password). If one of the users
changes his password and the new one is shorter then 5 characters it is
rejected. This appears in the logfile and that's OK so far but the users
don't get notified. They think the password has changed and use the new
one.

Why is that? Could it be this is a config thing?

We're using Samba 2.2.3a on Debian GNU/Linux.

Regards,
Florian Thiel
-- 
Florian Thiel - Medienzentrum Kassel
Systembetreuung Internet- und Kommunikationstechnik
Kasseler Schulen am Netz - http://www.medienzentrum-kassel.de

I would set the 'Minimum Password Length' in the 'Local Policy
Settings' of
the Clients to the same value as in linux. So if in Linux your users need >5
chars, set Minimum Password Length also to 5.

cheers,

Stumpfl Markus

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> [mailto:samba-bounces+htl.traun.kustos=eduhi.at@lists.samba.org] Im
> Auftrag von Florian Thiel
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. M?rz 2004 11:43
> An: Samba Mailinglist
> Betreff: [Samba] No error on change to password below configured length
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Our users change their passwords using the original Win2K password
> change mechanisms (Ctrl+Alt+Del -> Change Password). If one of the users
> changes his password and the new one is shorter then 5 characters it is
> rejected. This appears in the logfile and that's OK so far but the
users
> don't get notified. They think the password has changed and use the new
> one.
> 
> Why is that? Could it be this is a config thing?
> 
> We're using Samba 2.2.3a on Debian GNU/Linux.
> 
> Regards,
> Florian Thiel
> --
> Florian Thiel - Medienzentrum Kassel
> Systembetreuung Internet- und Kommunikationstechnik
> Kasseler Schulen am Netz - http://www.medienzentrum-kassel.de
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