W2K Domain Login Problem with 2.2.0

Steve Langasek vorlon at netexpress.net
Mon Apr 23 15:51:44 GMT 2001


On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> > I need to know if using this module and PAM will work on
> > a winbindd enabled system. If it doesn't, then I'm going
> > to comment out the PAM check for restrictions on accounts
> > in smbd until it does.

> Considering account management in pam_winbind consists of a sum total of
> getpwnam() then I think that its safe - unless we are totally broke.

Calling getpwnam() for account management on an appliance box sounds rather
broken to me, actually.  pam_winbind should be doing winbind-specific account
checks here, or it should be a complete no-op.

Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer





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