You’ll want to look at ‘dsconfigad -passinterval’
There’s no description for it in the manpage other than the usage syntax.
By default it’s set for 14 days. You can see the setting by running
‘dsconfig -show’.

-Eric

On 5/10/12 8:54 AM, “Steve Howe” wrote:

> I can’t answer for the built in as we don’t deploy that anymore but
> the Centrify has a timescale that can be set for how long the
> credentials are cache for. I would expect the built in Apple plugging
> to have a similar setting somewhere under the hood.
>
>
>
> On 10 May 2012, at 13:32, Eddie Wettach wrote:
>
>> We are about to deploy several hundred Macbook Airs (10.7.3) that are
>> bound to Active Directory (Windows 2008 R2). Our question is that if
>> these computers go off campus for a month and then come back will
>> everything still work? I have heard murmors of a machine password
>> that is initatied by the client and that if it doesn’t check in within
>> 30 days then the machine loses its bind or connection to Active
>> Direcotry? Is this true? Is there a way to change this to a longer
>> interval? Any other issues you can see with clients being off the
>> local network for that time?
>>
>> P.S. Our users will login once on campus to setup the mobile account.
>> They will then take them home for about a month and then bring them
>> back on campus.
>>
>> Thanks
>> – Eddie Wettach
>>
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