pam_nt_dom and winbind problems

[Elrond]

On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 02:46:00PM +1000, Luke McKee wrote:
> > A word of warning: playing with the pam configuration files can
> > be dangerous if you don't know what you are doing.  I find it
> > useful to leave a root window somewhere to undo stuff that
> > doesn't work.  (-:
> >
> 
> Tim,
> 
[...]
> Any ideas about the dl_open errors with pam_ntdom_auth ? I'll recompile
> samba-tng with nis / nis+ for good luck this time. Is ntdom_auth obsolete
> even from the TNG source?

I don't know exactly, but my current guess is, that "even"
from TNG, pam_ntdom is not anymore supported.

pam_winbind is thought to be the usual and working solution
for this problem...

> wbinfo -t  not returning with a nice message is bad isn't it? Will this
> affect winbind performing authentication?

Don't know jack about winbind...

(I've got a bunch of AIX boxes, so winbind is anyway out of
question, and only using it on my single Linux box doesn't
male much sense.)


    Elrond