[Samba] passwd command problem with Solaris/winbind/pam

Tim Potter tpot at samba.org
Fri Nov 8 19:07:35 GMT 2002


On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:42:22PM -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote:

> > Now, one problem.  nscd (Name Service Caching Daemon) will now run!  That
> > sounds good, right, because normally when winbind is in nsswitch.conf, nscd
> > bails?  Well, when nscd is running, name resolution is done by nscd, NOT the
> > application, so our fopen(2) override is ineffective.  nscd doesn't crash,
> > but doesn't resolve through winbind either, so smbd fails to lookup Windows
> > Domain accounts.  Solution: turn off nscd, easy as that.
> 
> I fixed this problem (or one very close to it) a long time ago.  Please
> verify that the version of winbind that you are running has this patch.
> 
> http://samba.cadcamlab.org/lists/samba-technical/May2002/00221.html

I merged this into winbindd - there should be a configure test to
determine whether the pwent structure contains pw_comment and pw_age.

Check for HAVE_PASSWORD_PW_AGE and HAVE_PASSWORD_PW_COMMENT in the
include/config.h file.


Tim.



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