On Thursday 25 August 2005 13:44, Jacob Elder wrote: > I should have noted that this started coming up only after we switched > to LDAP. > The local policies on the workstations are mostly unchanged from the old > domain, which did not suffer from this problem. By "mostly," I mean we are > now allowing all authenticated users to change the system time (so > logon.cmd can use NET TIME /SET /Y). This shouldn't have impacted the > password expiry...
Email your smb.conf to me off-line to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, I'll try to help. - John T. > > > -- > Jacob Elder > > Quoting Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 14:53 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> We are using Samba 3.0.14a-6, slapd 2.2.26-4 and smbldap-tools 0.9.1-2 > >> on Debian. My users are complaining about warnings that their password > >> is about to > >> expire and that the are told "You do not have permission to change your > >> password" when they try to change it. sambaAcctFlags includes the X > >> flag which > >> I thought meant "don't expire passwords." The password changing > >> thing has got > >> me even more stumped. Can anyone offer any clues? > > > > ---- > > I believe that you will find the warning about the change password is > > generated by local policy on the computers and not demanded by Samba. > > > > I think Paul was hinting at a rather quirky thing in Samba 3 that gets > > an error reported to the user when he changes his password that it > > didn't work but on properly configured systems, that message seems to > > get sent anyway, even when the password change does indeed work. > > > > Craig > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- John H Terpstra Samba-Team Member Phone: +1 (650) 580-8668 Author: The Official Samba-3 HOWTO & Reference Guide, 2 Ed., ISBN: 0131882228 Samba-3 by Example, 2 Ed., ISBN: 0131882221X Hardening Linux, ISBN: 0072254971 Other books in production. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
