If you use Linux in a Windows domain and there are N days to expiry, this is how you can change it without resorting to a windows machine.
These are the parameters to ldapsearch (from ldap-utils in Ubuntu), for searching for the record for Joe Blogg's user. sAMAccountName is the LDAP field that ActiveDirectory uses to store the user name. 'DOMAIN\Joe.Bloggs' where "DOMAIN" is the the active directory domain. Othewise you could use "CN=Joe.Bloggs,DC=example,DC=com" instead of "DOMAIN\Joe.Bloggs" Show Sample Output
Convert file from the UTF8 encoding used on Linux (has no "EF BB BF" byte order mark at the start) to the UTF-16 encoding used on Windows (has an "FF FE" byte order mark at the start). Thanks to commenter: previous iconv command was the obsolete way to do it.
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