samba - Aug 2003 - Manage user policy

Hi all,

I interested in use Samba as PDC, but I want user account policy, that
users use password not less than 8 symbols and users must change their
password every 30 days... 
 I search trough google, try little reading of many manuals, but didn`t
find my answer... only what many people are interested in that too.
btw, some ppl say that it can be done with new samba-3 and ldap, how,
manuals?

thanks anyway,
Casper

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Kaspars wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>
> I interested in use Samba as PDC, but I want user account policy, that
> users use password not less than 8 symbols and users must change their
> password every 30 days...
>  I search trough google, try little reading of many manuals, but didn`t
> find my answer... only what many people are interested in that too.
> btw, some ppl say that it can be done with new samba-3 and ldap, how,
> manuals?
This can be done with Samba-3. You can set the password policy using:

1. Unix command line too is: pdbedit
	- see man page for pdbedit
2. Microsoft SrvTools.exe
	- can be installed on NT4 Workstation, Windows 200x / XP
	- use the Domain User Manager
3. Microsoft NEXUS.EXE
	- use this for domain management from Win 9x/Me
	- use the Domain User Manager


- John T.
-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht@samba.org