root can't log into SWAT

Alexander Bokovoy a.bokovoy at sam-solutions.net
Tue Nov 4 11:42:28 GMT 2003


On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:18:40AM -0500, Scott Phelps wrote:
> ## Here's my /etc/xinetd.d/swat file
> service swat
> {
>         port            = 901
>         socket_type     = stream
>         wait            = no
>         only_from       = localhost
>         user            = root
>         server          = /usr/sbin/swat
>         log_on_failure += USERID
>         disable         = no
> }
> 
> Of course xinetd is running, but when I try to log in through my browser
> as root is says access denied.
Have you configured Samba to use PAM during build? If so, SWAT relies on
PAM to perform authentication and therefore you need to have correct PAM
settings for facility called 'samba' (usually /etc/pam.d/samba in Linux
PAM).
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/ Alexander Bokovoy
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