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william villanueva wrote:

> I'm familiar with NT which allows one to set the length of time a
> password is allowed for a user and then they are are forced to change
> it, even prompt them like a week before it expires.  I'm migrating my
> users from the NT to the linux server and have setup access and sharing
> but I couldn't find  a command in samba that will set an expiration
> period for the passwords.

I believe the only way to do this would be to make samba do
authentication via an ldap. The smb.conf option "encrypt passwords =
yes" doesn't support password expiration.

Check this for details:

http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/Samba-LDAP-HOWTO.html

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