[Samba] Problem with samba and screen saver resolved.

[sheldona]

I want to thank Andrew for his assistance.  I added the lines in the
system-auth file and everything works perfect.  I tried it in the
xscreensaver and the kscreensaver file without affect, just as an FYI.

Thanks so much Andrew.

Al Sheldon
IS manager
Evanite Fiber Corporation
1115 SE Crystal Lake Drive
Corvallis, OR 97339-0598
(541) 753-1211  voice
(541) 753-0388  fax
ismanager at evanite.com
www.evanite.com

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]  On
Behalf Of Andrew Bartlett
Sent:	Wednesday, August 14, 2002 1:02 AM
To:	sheldona
Cc:	samba at lists.samba.org
Subject:	Re: [Samba] Problem with samba and screen saver

sheldona wrote:
>
> I am running:
> Samba 2.2.4 client
> On my workstation Red Hat version 7.2
> KDE desktop
> Connecting to our Microsoft network.  This works fine.
>
> However when I turn on the screen saver with password and the screen locks
I
> cannot get back in (none of my passwords work, including the root password

This will never work, becouse xscreensaver is running as 'you', and you
don't have the right to read /etc/shadow.  (This would make it compeatly
useless - or require setuid screensavers - except that the is a small
setuid helper inside pam_unix that allows you to check your own password
only).

> and I must use the power switch to restart the workstation).  Does anyone
> know what password the screen saver is validating against and if this
still
> works with Samba enabled (in particular when authenticating to an NT
> domain).

Look into the PAM configuration.  You probably have pam_winbind specifed
only in one of the PAM files.  Either also specifiy it in
/etc/pam.d/xscreensaver, or /etc/pam.d/system-auth.(which covers the
whole system, in the default configuration)

Andrew Bartlett

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