hello, Thanks, this I what I wanted, I want to turn off password expiry, I see there is the -P and -C so I assume I run the following command
pdbedit -P "maximum password age" -C -1 account policy value for maximum password age is now 4294967295 I think this has set it to unlimited? Thanks Gordon. * Andrew Bartlett ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 07:37, Gordon Heydon wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I triied this, but it didn't work. Basically I am triing to follow the > > "Administration of Windows 200x/XP Policies" to edit policy so that I > > can turn off password expiry, but when I follow the instructions it > > doen't work. > > > > I would prefer a method of doing this under linux, as it is hard for me > > to find all the windows stuff. > > Do you mean you want to stop Samba expiring passwords, or you want to > turn of password expiry for the local accounts on the machines? > > Samba password expiry is controlled by pdbedit's account policy option > (and one of the worst-documented, least intuitive parts of samba - I > know, as I added it ;-) > > 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 -- Gordon Heydon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
