[NTLUG:Discuss] Samba Password Aging

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Fri Jan 9 14:17:50 CST 2004


Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> The deafening silence indicates that no one here knows the answer 
> either.  Will post a followup if I can find one.

Since the auths are all linux local (I presume, we haven't
seen your smb.conf!)... check normal Linux account
aging.

> 
> My workaround to the first problem is to weekly reset the password via 
> cron so it never ages, but that is such a kludge!
> 
> ...Thanks,
> ...Ken
> 
> 
> Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 
>> Samba version 2.999+3.0cvs20020906-1 for Debian
>>
>> Somehow the Samba password is aging and is requiring a reset once a 
>> month for *one user only*.  I can't see anything in the manuals to 
>> indicate that the passwords age, so how is this one doing it?
>>
>> The user is on a Windows 2000 box if that makes any difference.
>>
>> Plus, with the new *.tdb format, how do you see what users are there?
>>
>> ...Thanks,
>> ...Ken
>>
>>
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