On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:23:10PM -0700, George Farris wrote: > On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 11:58, John H Terpstra wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, George Farris wrote: > > > > > Is this operational yet in samba rc2? I want to use it to force first > > > time login password change. I can't seem to figure out how to do this. > > > Must one try and use PAM? > > > > Yes it is operational in RC2. RC3 was released yesterday, so you might > > consider using it. > > > > Instead of using pdbedit for this, I'd strongly recommend that you > > download the SrvTools.EXE from Microsoft's web site and use it to manage > > user password change enforcement. It's much easier that way. > > Instructions are in the Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf in the chapter "Account > > Information Databases". > > > > But, but, but:-) I don't run windows on my desktop I run Linux. Using > svrtools.exe is an option but not one I want. Thank you for the reply. > BTW do you know how to use pdbedit to change this field?
Usual cop-out is to use the ldapsam backend, and to edit that manually. Feel free to submit a patch to pdbedit however. The magic value for 'must change password now' is setting 'password must change time' to 0. I agree, we should not need to run Windows admin samba :-) Andrew Bartlett -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba