On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 05:08, Fabien Chevalier wrote: > Le Lundi 23 F�vrier 2004 17:31, JustFillBug a �crit : > > When I set the 'maximum password age' to 0, my password > > expired immediately after I did a smbpasswd. Shouldn't setting > > it to 0 mean the password will never expire? Or are there any > > other way to set password to never expire? > > > > Here is the microsoft's interpretation on 'maximum password > > age': > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windowsserver2003 > >/proddocs/entserver/501.asp > > > > It said 0 = 'never expire'. > > Hello, > > In fact i think this doesn't work like that with Samba. > the field name is the same, but in Samba case, it contains > a number of seconds. Each time you change your password, the 'password must > change' field in your account is incremented by this number. > > So in your case it's incremented of 0, so your password expires immediately..
Thanks for the bug-report, this is now Fixed in 3.0 CVS. 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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