[Samba] "Bad lockout attempt" recorded twice

bender at twcny.rr.com bender at twcny.rr.com
Wed Oct 13 19:29:53 GMT 2004


All,
I built and installed 3.0.7.  I am trying to
finalize my setup by limiting the user to 3 failed
logon attempts.
I used:
./pdbedit -P "bad lockout attempt" -C 3
This works fine for all users EXCEPT for the user
with a matching Windows user name. In other words,
if my windows user name is 'bender' and my samba
user name is 'bender' the number of Bad logon attempts
will continue to increment as other accounts logon's
fail.

Example:
I logon to my Windows box as 'bender'
I also have the samba users 'bob', 'chuck' and
'bender'.  If I Map a Share as bob and mess up twice
(or once) and then
successfully logon, the 'Bad password count' for
'bob' will correctly be 0, but for bender it will be
2.  If I logon
as 'chuck' and mess up once - 'bender' is now locked
out!!  Not only that, all the shares on my samba
server are
locked out to EVERYONE until I either remove user
'bender' or
./pdbedit -z -c='[]' bender

I included smb.conf below although I doubt this
matters much.

Thanks for any help!
Bender


# Global parameters
[global]
       netbios name = SAMBA
       min passwd length = 8
       passdb backend = tdbsam
       passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
       passwd chat debug = Yes
       log level = 2
       load printers = No
       show add printer wizard = No
       logon script = notice.bat
       os level = 35
       preferred master = No
       ldap ssl = no
       winbind use default domain = Yes
       directory security mask = 0700
       hosts allow = XX.XX.XX.XX/255.255.252.0, locahost

[some_dir]
       comment = XXX
       path = /usr/local/
       read only = No
       create mask = 0765





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