[Samba] RE: SWAT not working, can't authenticate
Joseph Loo
jloo at acm.org
Fri Nov 8 04:50:59 GMT 2002
Try checking in the /etc/pam.d directory that authorize the use of swat.
Irving Carrion wrote:
> Maybe you should post your smb.conf file. Something may stand out to
> someone on the list.
>
> IRV
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]
> On Behalf Of Noel Kelly
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 4:48 PM
> To: 'Jim Myers'; SAMBA at SAMBA.ORG
> Subject: RE: [Samba] RE: SWAT not working, can't authenticate
>
> I have had this problem before. Never really got to the bottom of it
> but if
> you want to get on then just add '-a' to your swat command to disable
> authentication.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Myers [mailto:myersjj at us.ibm.com]
> Sent: 07 November 2002 21:08
> To: SAMBA at SAMBA.ORG
> Subject: RE: [Samba] RE: SWAT not working, can't authenticate
>
> I had already done that, so it must be something more subtle...
>
> Jim Myers
> IBM Almaden Research Center
> B3-239, 408-927-2013
>
> "Irving Carrion" <icarrion at allinterior.com>
> 11/07/2002 12:16 PM
>
> To: Jim Myers/Almaden/IBM at IBMUS, <SAMBA at SAMBA.ORG>
> cc:
> Subject: RE: [Samba] RE: SWAT not working, can't
> authenticate
>
>
>
> Not to sure, but I think you may need to add the root account to Samba.
> smbpasswd -a root
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]
> On Behalf Of Jim Myers
> Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:08 PM
> To: SAMBA at SAMBA.ORG
> Subject: [Samba] RE: SWAT not working, can't authenticate
>
> I have Samba 3.0 alpha20 installed on Linux RedHat 7.3 and all works
> fine
> except for SWAT.
> I have /etc/xinetd.d/swat defined properly (I think) and port 901 is
> active and starts SWAT OK.
>
> When I try to log in to SWAT either locally or from remote browser, the
> authentication fails.
> I'm logging in as user=root with the correct password, but the
> authentication still fails.
>
> Is there some special password file that SWAT uses?
>
> Jim Myers
> IBM Almaden Research Center
> B3-239, 408-927-2013
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