On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 00:28, Ross McInnes (Systems) wrote: > Recently we were audited and as part of that they looked at our systems > and policies etc and produced a report. > > As part of that report they mentioned about forcing users to change thier > passwords every 90 days or so.
Samba 3.0 allows this, use pdbedit to set the "max password age" to the number of seconds in 90 days. pdbedit -P "maximum password age" --value=7776000 > They also mentioned about disabling accounts after 3 login attempts. There is (slow) work to implement this, I know jra gets very excited about it every now and then, but it's currently still at patch stage, see efforts on the samba-technical list archives. > Im pretty sure both can be done on NT, but id rather stick with rh and > samba thanks ever so much. > > Can samba does these things? even if its a tinkering kind of job? Samba can do most things, it's just a matter of how much tinkering ;-) Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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