Samba-1.9.17p2 & PAM

[Baldur Norddahl]

On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Tom Hutchison wrote:

> Excuse me if this is an old question as I am new to the list.
> 
> Has anyone built Samba-1.9.17p2 from the sources on RedHat 4.1, i.e.
>  PAM -0.54.  After uncommenting in the Makefile,
> 
>  PAM_FLAGS = -DUSE_PAM
>  PAM-LIBS = -ldl -lpam
> 
> I compiled samba and installed it.  Unfortunately it will not
> authenticate a user no matter what I try.  I am not good enough to debug
> the log files and strace output. Any help or advice would be greatly
> appreciated.

Create the file /etc/pam.d/samba with the following contens:

auth	required	/lib/security/pam_pwdb.so nullok shadow
account	required	/lib/security/pam_pwdb.so

This will allow samba to use pam.

Baldur