samba - May 2007 - Endless Password Expiration in 3.0.25

People who have reported this bug (Endless Password Expiration in
3.0.25, bugzilla id #4630) can you please let me know if you're
working on 64-bit machines please ? I'm trying to track this
down for 3.0.25a and am working on a theory....

Jeremy.

Quoting Jeremy Allison (jra@samba.org):
> People who have reported this bug (Endless Password Expiration in
> 3.0.25, bugzilla id #4630) can you please let me know if you're
> working on 64-bit machines please ? I'm trying to track this
> down for 3.0.25a and am working on a theory....
The bug was also reported in Debian
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=425083), though not
by the user who reported #4630 in Samba's BTS, and some indices show
that our user seems to be running the i386 port of Debian, so non
64-bit.


Waiting for his answer, though...

On Fri, 18 May 2007 15:25:53 -0700 Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org> wrote:

JA> People who have reported this bug (Endless Password Expiration in
JA> 3.0.25, bugzilla id #4630) can you please let me know if you're
JA> working on 64-bit machines please ? I'm trying to track this
JA> down for 3.0.25a and am working on a theory....
JA> 
JA> Jeremy.

we had the problem on solaris 10 machines with 32-bit and 64-bit sambas.
but not all servers exhibited the problem.
(We still run 3.0.25 on one of them).

the problem is somehow related to the history of the server.
Recently installed servers with an history starting with 3.0.23 or 3.0.24
worked. servers with a long career suffered the problem.
(perhaps a 64-bit episode, but I doubt it).

Sun, 04 Dec 0468 is long gone as are the barbarians invasions

on a non working server pdbedit gives:

Logoff time: Sun, 04 Dec 0468 16:30:07 MET
Kickoff time: Sun, 04 Dec 0468 16:30:07 MET
Password last set: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:14:46 MEST
Password can change: Tue, 15 May 2007 10:14:46 MEST
Password must change: Sun, 04 Dec 0468 16:30:07 MET
Last bad password : 0
Bad password count : 0
Logon hours : FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF


A working server gives

Logoff time: Tue, 19 Jan 2038 04:14:07 MET
Kickoff time: Tue, 19 Jan 2038 04:14:07 MET
Password last set: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 13:43:24 MET
Password can change: Wed, 05 Nov 2003 13:43:24 MET
Password must change: Tue, 19 Jan 2038 04:14:07 MET
Last bad password : 0
Bad password count : 0
Logon hours : FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

The Servers are identicals (situed at differents sites)
with the same smb.conf and smbpasswd file
but with differents history and tdb files


I don't know where the "Password must change" value
is stored or is calculated

the value shown by pdbedit is still wrong after regressing
to 3.0.24 (and was probably wrong before upgrading to 3.0.25)
but doesn't cause any troubles



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