Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote: > Hi Boaz, >
Thanks for the reply, Felipe. > I'm using LDAP as a backend so YMMV. > I've been thinking about using LDAP, but I don't have a very large installation (maybe 15 computers) so I wanted to avoid getting overly complicated. But it seems that tdbSAM is not much better as it is very difficult to get good information on how to get things done. > > On 03/16/2007 12:10 PM, Boaz Bezborodko wrote: >> I'm setting up a Samba server using CentOS 4's (RedHat >> Enterprise Linux) standard version (v.3.0101411). I > > Hmmm, you should upgrade your samba version. Not sure > if it will solve your problem, but I'm using 3.0.24 and the > information of this message is based on this version. Anyway, > 3.0.14 and 3.0.2x has lots of improvements and fixes that are > worthwhile. > I was sticking with the official RedHat release if only because previous advice was that I should probably stick with it unless I specifically needed new features as it was likely the most stable version with this OS. I did not anticipate that what seem like basic operations would be so difficult to apply. Is this a version thing? I would think that adjusting dates in a database would be an easy thing to do. > >> want to be able to force users to change their password >> upon first logging in and to have to change them after >> a certain period of time (per user, not system-wide). > >> The problem is that the pdbedit commands don't seem to >> be registering at all in the database. If I enter the >> following command: >> pdbedit --pwd-must-change-time="2010-01-01" --time-format="%Y-%m-%d" > > Not sure if it is a bug in pdbedit, but there is an > unusual behaviour of samba with regards to passwd fields, > here is a message where I explain the behaviour: > > http://lists.samba.org/archive/samba/2007-February/129890.html > I'll try this out. Thanks for the assistance. Boaz -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba