I have a patch that enables "user password timeout" for 2.2.2. It works only for WinNT, Win2000 (tested and Samba on AIX and Linux) and I think with WinXP. It does not work with Win9x. You can download the patch from http://www.m-wohlfarth.de/Downloads/Samba/samba.html. I never had the problem with automatically expiring password as described in the originating message - I couldn't see this "feature" in the source I downloaded - so be carefull. regards MW "Charles Marcus" <CharlesM@Media-Brokers.com>@lists.samba.org on 13.02.2002 22:08:35 Gesendet von: samba-admin@lists.samba.org An: "Samba Maillist (E-mail)" <samba@lists.samba.org> Kopie: Org.Element: Telefon: Thema: RE: [Samba] password expiration> From: samba-admin@lists.samba.org > [mailto:samba-admin@lists.samba.org]On > Behalf Of Gerald Carter > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 3:38 PM > To: William H. Lacy > Cc: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: [Samba] password expiration > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, William H. Lacy wrote: > >> I have samba 2.2.2 on Solaris 7 running as windows domain >> server. The problem is the windows2000 clients keep giving >> users the message that their password is about to expire >> and ask if you want to change it. No password expirations >> have been set on the server or the local windows boxes. If >> you cancel the message it continues to work fine. On the >> local machine local password maximum age policy has been >> set to 0. Any ideas?> Hey Bill, It's a hardcoded value in the source. :-( Easy > to fix. Or you can try adding a 'X' to the user's smbpasswd > entry (replace one of the spaces).Hi Gerald, Was this just an oversight? Or is there some reason this can't be an smb.conf configurable option? I definitely want to be able to force my users to change their password, but would like the flexibility of being able to change it without having to change the source and recompile. Is this gonna be possible in the near future? Thanks Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
Sanjiv Bawa
2002-Feb-14 11:02 UTC
Antwort: RE: [Samba] password expiration - can patch be put in a standard distribution?
Is it possible to put this patch into 2.2.3a in the standard distribution? Can one of the gurus respond to this? I could really use this and the issue seems to have come up before. How do you set the timeout? Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: samba-admin@lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin@lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of Mathias Wohlfarth Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 3:45 AM To: Charles Marcus <CharlesM; samba Subject: Antwort: RE: [Samba] password expiration I have a patch that enables "user password timeout" for 2.2.2. It works only for WinNT, Win2000 (tested and Samba on AIX and Linux) and I think with WinXP. It does not work with Win9x. You can download the patch from http://www.m-wohlfarth.de/Downloads/Samba/samba.html. I never had the problem with automatically expiring password as described in the originating message - I couldn't see this "feature" in the source I downloaded - so be carefull. regards MW "Charles Marcus" <CharlesM@Media-Brokers.com>@lists.samba.org on 13.02.2002 22:08:35 Gesendet von: samba-admin@lists.samba.org An: "Samba Maillist (E-mail)" <samba@lists.samba.org> Kopie: Org.Element: Telefon: Thema: RE: [Samba] password expiration> From: samba-admin@lists.samba.org > [mailto:samba-admin@lists.samba.org]On > Behalf Of Gerald Carter > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 3:38 PM > To: William H. Lacy > Cc: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: [Samba] password expiration > > On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, William H. Lacy wrote: > >> I have samba 2.2.2 on Solaris 7 running as windows domain >> server. The problem is the windows2000 clients keep giving >> users the message that their password is about to expire >> and ask if you want to change it. No password expirations >> have been set on the server or the local windows boxes. If >> you cancel the message it continues to work fine. On the >> local machine local password maximum age policy has been >> set to 0. Any ideas?> Hey Bill, It's a hardcoded value in the source. :-( Easy > to fix. Or you can try adding a 'X' to the user's smbpasswd > entry (replace one of the spaces).Hi Gerald, Was this just an oversight? Or is there some reason this can't be an smb.conf configurable option? I definitely want to be able to force my users to change their password, but would like the flexibility of being able to change it without having to change the source and recompile. Is this gonna be possible in the near future? Thanks Charles -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba