[Samba] Making winbindd and pam_mount play nice together (2nd try)

[John Simovic]

My problem is that I am using rh 8 and cannot winbind to authenticate users. wbinfo returns all users and groups and getent passwd works but no joy!!!!!!!!!

On Thu, 29 May 2003 17:33:14 -0500
Bradley Wendelboe <bradley.wendelboe at polarisind.com> wrote:

> Yes, I'm going to individual shares.  It seems that pam_mount is not getting
> the password information from the PAM system.  I've contacted the author of
> pam_mount and will share any results.  
> 
> So far:
> 
> Several people are trying to get pam_mount working with winbind.  I don't
> have a winbind setup myself, so it is difficult for me to debug.  Please be
> patient.
> 
> The only hypothesis I have at this point revolves around pam_mounts use of
> functions like getpwnam to retrieve information about a user's account.  
> Theoretically, if one configures /etc/nsswitch.conf correctly, getpwnam can
> use services besides /etc/passwd (ie: winbind) to answer questions about a
> user.  
> Pam_mount uses getpwnam to do the following:
> 
> 1.  Determine where ~/.pam_mount.conf is.
> 
> 2.  Determine the UID and GID that should own a mount point created by 
> pam_mount.
> 
> 3.  Determine the UID and GID that should own a user's session count file 
> (/var/run/pam_mount/<user>).
> 
> 4.  Ensure a user owns mount points and volumes for volumes defined by 
> ~/.pam_mount.conf.
> 
> The only other suspect action I can think of is pam_mount's retrieval of a 
> user's password from the PAM system.  I don't think this should be an issue
> if you use pam_winbind to authenticate users.
> 
> Do any of these hints help?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Simovic [mailto:jsimovic at rydesc-h.schools.nsw.edu.au] 
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 3:21 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Making winbindd and pam_mount play nice together (2nd
> try)
> 
> Are you folders shared on the windows side. The individual folders need to
> be shared, not a level above apparently.
> 
> On Thu, 29 May 2003 14:09:35 -0500
> Bradley Wendelboe <bradley.wendelboe at polarisind.com> wrote:
> 
> > I'm also trying to get this working with the same results on RH 9/Samba
> > 2.2.7a/pam_mount 0.9.1
> > 
> > Bradley
> > 
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