samba - Mar 2004 - M$ W2K Clients get requests to change samba password -- PDC is a samba 2.2.8a

I am seeing an intermittent problem that bugs just a few people,
infrequently.
We use a Linux RH8 / Samba 2.2.8a PDC and the clients are W2K SP3 systems
with
current M$ patches.

At times, users get the a message that their password expires in XX days and
if they would like to change them.

The smbpasswd file for all user entries are marked with the flags 'UX'
meaning
 of course the password NEVER expires.

I have verified that the RH shadow passwords (should not be used) are set to
never
expire.  And "obey pam restrictions=no".

On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 16:39, M. D. Parker wrote:
> I am seeing an intermittent problem that bugs just a few people,
> infrequently.
> We use a Linux RH8 / Samba 2.2.8a PDC and the clients are W2K SP3 systems
> with
> current M$ patches.
> 
> At times, users get the a message that their password expires in XX days
and
> if they would like to change them.
> 
> The smbpasswd file for all user entries are marked with the flags
'UX'
> meaning
>  of course the password NEVER expires.
> 
> I have verified that the RH shadow passwords (should not be used) are set
to
> never
> expire.  And "obey pam restrictions=no".
----
sounds to me like a local policy issue

Craig

On 2004-03-15, M. D. Parker <mike.parker@ga.com>
wrote:
>
> At times, users get the a message that their password expires in XX days
and
> if they would like to change them.
>
> The smbpasswd file for all user entries are marked with the flags
'UX'
> meaning
>  of course the password NEVER expires.
>
> I have verified that the RH shadow passwords (should not be used) are set
to
> never
> expire.  And "obey pam restrictions=no".
>
Yes, it is very hard to find out how to change expire date on the net.
Bad document or document organization on Samba.

You have to use 'pdbedit' to control that. And this should be in FAQ.
All the talk about shadow password and pam are misleading.

Please explain further.....there are no policies implemented and we 
use a samba 2.2.8a PDC.  

If you are talking something on the local machine, please be 
advised that it has seemed endemic to a specific couple of users 
even after the physical machines have been swapped out.

Mike

On 15 Mar 2004 at 19:38, Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 16:39, M. D. Parker wrote:
> > I am seeing an intermittent problem that bugs just a few people,
> > infrequently.
> > We use a Linux RH8 / Samba 2.2.8a PDC and the clients are W2K SP3
systems
> > with
> > current M$ patches.
> > 
> > At times, users get the a message that their password expires in XX
days and
> > if they would like to change them.
> > 
> > The smbpasswd file for all user entries are marked with the flags
'UX'
> > meaning
> >  of course the password NEVER expires.
> > 
> > I have verified that the RH shadow passwords (should not be used) are
set to
> > never
> > expire.  And "obey pam restrictions=no".
> ----
> sounds to me like a local policy issue
> 
> Craig
> 
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