[Samba] RE: Winbind on HPUX11, Totally Stuck, Please Help

John H Terpstra jht at samba.org
Fri Jan 31 06:35:46 GMT 2003


On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Miles Roper wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm forgetting about the password one at the moment, thanks for all your
> input :o)
>
> I still don't have a clue how to solve my main problem.  I'm assuming that
> its not actually winbind related now, as I've recently tried pam_smb and get
> the same basic problem.
>
> Basically, when I log into the UNIX box, the username/password of a NT user
> is being authenticated, but doesn't actually log in.  It doesn't get past
> the password line.  I know it accepts the password.  Its almost as if it
> can't find the shell.  But the template variable is set within the smb.conf
> file.  Permissions are fine.  I have exactly the same problem with the
> pam_smb module.

So what does PAM report into your /var/log files?

Have you tried adding to each line in your /etc/pam.d/login (after the .so
file name) the word 'audit' - this will increase the volume of debugging
info spit out into /var/log/messages, or wherever PAM send this on your
distro.

- John T.

>
> If there is any further information I can send let me know.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Miles
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1) [mailto:don_mccall at hp.com]
> Sent: Friday, 31 January 2003 07:06 a.m.
> To: STEFFENS,MICHAEL (HP-Germany,ex1); Ronan Waide
> Cc: 'samba at lists.samba.org'; Esh, Andrew; Miles Roper;
> 'samba-technical at lists.samba.org'; 'Richard Sharpe'
> Subject: RE: [Samba] RE: Winbind on HPUX11, Totally Stuck, Please Help
>
>
> Hi Everyone,
> This whole problem with the password command not working when winbind
> is included as a method in the nsswitch.conf can probably be worked around
> by simply using the -r files (or -r nis or -r nisplus) switch.  Take a look
> at the man page for passwd on HP-UX 11.x  and see if this won't help you
> out.
> Hope this helps,
> Don
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Steffens [mailto:michael.steffens at hp.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 11:52
> > To: Ronan Waide
> > Cc: 'samba at lists.samba.org'; Esh, Andrew; Miles Roper;
> > 'samba-technical at lists.samba.org'; 'Richard Sharpe'
> > Subject: Re: [Samba] RE: Winbind on HPUX11, Totally Stuck, Please Help
> >
> >
> > Ronan Waide wrote:
> > > On January 28, Andrew_Esh at adaptec.com said:
> > >
> > >>I don't have HPUX, so I don't know what to suggest for
> > that. I just know
> > >>getent won't work without winbindd in nsswitch.conf on Linux.
> > >
> > >
> > > I think the point that was being made is that NSS support
> > on HPUX only
> > > supports a few known types, of which one is LDAP. The discussion was
> > > basically about faking out the system so that what it thinks is LDAP
> > > is actually winbind.
> >
> > Yep. It's a HP-UX specific workaround. Please ignore it
> > everywhere else.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
>

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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org


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