samba4 refuses to auth one user

Pavel Herrmann morpheus.ibis at gmail.com
Sat Jul 23 02:36:40 MDT 2011


On Saturday 23 of July 2011 09:47:53 Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-07-22 at 19:12 +0200, Pavel Herrmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have a little problem with my samba4 (which is otherwise great, good
> > job guys!), it refuses to authenticate one of my users (yes the
> > password is correct, tried resetting it)
> > 
> > the users name is domname at domname.tld - basically it works as a shared
> > mailbox for staff, not as a real user.
> > 
> > is this some special account name which cannot be used? or where else
> > can be the problem?
> 
> Is this a samAccountName, or a userPrincipalName (which ldap attribute
> is that exact value in?)
> 
> In AD, the @ is special, as if it's the samAccountName we would have
> domname at domname.tld@domname.tld which isn't a valid principal.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett

sAMAccountName and uid of the user are "domname", the "domname at domname.tld" is 
the principal name

Thanks
Pavel Herrmann


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