[TriLUG] Samba password expired?

[Kevin Otte]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 05:02:51PM -0500, Kevin Otte wrote:
> [2006/01/17 16:43:23, 1] auth/auth_sam.c:sam_account_ok(160)
>   sam_account_ok: Password expired at 'Tue, 17 Jan 2006 14:19:26 GMT'
> (1137525566) unix time.
> 
> The problem is, I never set this password to expire, nor do I even know how. 
> Ideally I want the password to _not_ expire.  What magical setting am I
> missing?

Thanks to shawnh for pointing me at:
http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/passdb.html

The final answer is (I hope):
pdbedit -r -c "[X]" username

We'll find out at password expiry time :)

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Kevin Otte, N8VNR
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