Re: Samba Password Expiration

[Ian Melnick <dazed@vonsteuben.cps.k12.il.us>]

Well, all the users in shadow -- their passwords expire in 99999 days.
The machine account doesn't have anything specified in the password
expiration field; I assume that must mean that it just does not expire
at all. For the user accounts, in the following field, is a 7,
representing that 7 days before the password will expire, the user will
be warned.

Is it possible that the machine account's expiration time affects the
time that a user must change his password? If there's nothing in that
field, does that imply no expiration, or default expiration period?

Thanks




!  (on Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 10:49:57AM +0200), in 'Re: Samba Password Expiration':
> Hello Ian!
> 
> At Wednesday 23 July 2003 04:00 Ian Melnick wrote:
> 
> > I recently upgraded to sarge, and now my samba passwords expire
> > every couple of weeks (i think). I also think it's using this new
> > password database. How do I turn off password expiration?
> 
> Do only the samba passwords expire, or is it the account passwords
> which expire?
> In the latter case take a look at the /etc/shadow file and man shadow.
> Otherwise I don't know...
> 
> HTH,
> Flo