[Samba] getent not working correctly

[Noel Kelly]

You need getent to work.  This is really how Unix actually does the
authenticating - winbind is just the conduit to the M$ database.  

Have you edited your /etc/nsswitch.conf correctly?  You need:

passwd:     files winbind nisplus
shadow:     files winbind nisplus
group:      files winbind nisplus

This will make Unix call winbind when looking for users/groups (this the
mechanism that getent passwd/group runs).

HTH,
Noel
       

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Patrick Ingles [mailto:ingless at visionsys.com]
Sent: 01 November 2002 15:41
To: samba at samba.org
Subject: [Samba] getent not working correctly


Hello again!

Ok, I've gotten wbinfo -u and wbinfo -g working great

Now I try to run getent passwd and getent group I get my local users/groups
but not the ones on the Windows 2k Server Domain Controller and it just
hangs after listing the local ones.

I also tried authenticating a user and it worked I'm assuming

wbinfo -a DOMAIN+ingless at DOMAIN%"password" (The usernames here have
user at domain due to some M$ Active-Directory thing...) plaintext password
authentication succeeded challenge/response password authentication failed
Could not authenticate user DOMAIN+ingless at DOMAIN%"password" with
challenge/response

Do I need getent working, or is it safe to assume everything is functioning
normally now?

Thanks!

-SP

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