On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 22:07 -0500, Philip M. White
wrote:> Hi, all,
>
> With the latest Samba4, I am not able to change a user's password via
> Windows 7.
>
> I was able to successfully set a password from within RSAT's Users
while
> adding a new user, but that user cannot change his own password.
>
> When I try, Windows 7 tells me that the server rejected the password
> change because the new password doesn't meet the complexity/length
> requirements.
>
> On Samba's end, I see this:
> Changing password of PMWWORLD\sue
(S-1-5-21-1802782687-180428704-2922416880-1106)
> kpasswdd: Password must be at least 7 characters long, and cannot match any
of your 24 previous passwords
>
> I get this regardless of what password I try. For the record, I tried
> Secret$1 and Secret$2, both of which meet the first condition and which
> I've tried for the first time ever.
>
> Can anyone confirm this behavior?
That's an odd one.
Perhaps it's a minimum password age?
Andrew Bartlett
--
Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Cisco Inc.
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