[Samba] testing users created by smbldap-tool...help!

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 15:58, abebe lsslp wrote:
> hey, 
> I can add and delete users using smbldap-tools just
> fine. However, I can't log into the machine using the
> users I created using the tool:'smbldap-useradd -m
> testuser1' and set a password using'smbldap-passwd
> testuser1'
> 
> I tried the follwoing:
> [root at eaglex root]# ssh testuser1 at eaglex
> testuser1 at eaglex's password:
> Permission denied, please try again.
> testuser1 at eaglex's password:
> Permission denied, please try again.
> testuser1 at eaglex's password:
> Permission denied
> (publickey,password,keyboard-interactive).
> 
> Then I logged into the machine using an existing user:
> 'ambbantu'. Next, I switched to 'testuser1'. As you
> can see this works fine. 
> 
> [ambbantu at eaglex ambbantu]$ su testuser1
> Password:
> [testuser1 at eaglex ambbantu]$
> 
> Does anybody have any idea why this is happening?
> 
> Ambex
> 
> PS: I didn't really know what would be an appropriate
> subject for this topic! :)
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Your problem is likely to be with the ssh plugin for pam / ldap and not
samba at all.

probably best to check with other people that use your particular
distribution and how they interact authentication services with ldap

Craig