Can't get domain auth to work?

[Buchan Milne]

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>Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 16:43:06 -0600
>From: Scott Mann <Scott.Mann at lefthandnetworks.com>
>Organization: Left Hand Networks, Inc.
>To: samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org
>Subject: Can't get domain auth to work?
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>Hi All,
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>I have a W2K domain controller. I downloaded samba-2.2.2 and compiled
>with winbind
>and ntacls. All of that went well.
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>I followed the instructions in the winbind man page to set up my Linux
>box
>as a domain client. With winbindd running, I can get wbinfo to work just
>fine (including -u, -g, -n, -S, -Y, etc.).
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>When I try to log in as a W2K user on the Linux system, however, it does
>not work.
>The problem seems to be with pam_winbind. When I use the debug argument,
>it always
>says that the user is "not found" even though it is a valid user in the
>W2K domain
>and shows up as such with wbinfo -u.
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>Any ideas, RTFMs, etc. sincerely appreciated!
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>Rgds,
>Scott
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You need to ensure that the c library finds the user (AFAIK), so you 
need to add a "winbind" entry to the passwd and group sections on 
/etc/nsswitch.conf. Once you have done that, try :
$ getent passwd
and you should see a list of domain users, if not, you have problems.

If  "getent passwd" shows domain users, you should be in the money ... 
(well, if your pam config files work)

Buchan

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