[Samba] Home Directory Winbind

[Ivano Cristofolini]

I haven't tried it myself but I think samba calls the PAM stack with 
the logging user's  privileges while pam_mkhomedir needs to be called as 
root to work (like telnet servers and such do).
Bye,

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Ivano Cristofolini
Presidio Informatico Ingegneria
Direzione Informatica e Telecomunicazioni
Università degli Studi di Trento
Via Mesiano 77,
38050 Povo(TN), Italy
Tel: +39 0461/881940
Fax: +39 0461/882628

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, samba wrote:

> LOL! Thanks for the second pair of eyes.
> 
> Of course now it is saying that pam has rejected the session. Will continue 
> to work on it.
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> --Tim
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ivano Cristofolini" <icristof at ing.unitn.it>
> To: "Tim Hodgkinson" <tim.hodgkinson at skibanff.com>
> Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 11:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Home Directory Winbind
> 
> 
> > Looks like it could just be homes/home mismatch.
> > Bye,
> >
> > ------------------------
> > Ivano Cristofolini
> > Presidio Informatico Ingegneria
> > Direzione Informatica e Telecomunicazioni
> > Università degli Studi di Trento
> > Via Mesiano 77,
> > 38050 Povo(TN), Italy
> > Tel: +39 0461/881940
> > Fax: +39 0461/882628
> >
> > On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Tim Hodgkinson wrote:
> >
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> Trying to find a solution to creating home directories by using winbind. 
> >> Have this setup:
> >>
> >>  /etc/pam.d/system-auth:
> >>
> >> session     required      /lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ 
> >> umask=0077
> >>
> >> With smb.conf:
> >>
> >> # Global parameters
> >> [global]
> >>         workgroup = domain
> >>         server string = Monarch Server
> >>         security = DOMAIN
> >>         map to guest = Bad User
> >>         obey pam restrictions = Yes
> >>         password server = server
> >>         log level = 3
> >>         syslog = 0
> >>         log file = /var/log/samba/%m
> >>         max log size = 50
> >>         name resolve order = wins lmhosts host bcast
> >>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
> >>         printcap name = /etc/printcap
> >>         preferred master = No
> >>         local master = No
> >>         domain master = No
> >>         dns proxy = No
> >>         wins server = 172.16.1.100,
> >>         idmap uid = 10000-20000
> >>         idmap gid = 10000-20000
> >>         template homedir = /home/users/%U
> >>         winbind separator = +
> >>         winbind use default domain = Yes
> >>         read only = No
> >>         hosts allow = 172., 127.
> >>
> >> [homes]
> >>         comment = %U Directories
> >>         path = /homes/users/%U
> >>         browseable = No
> >>
> >> Winbind creates the directory in /home/users/:
> >>
> >> drwx------  2 thodgkinson Domain Users 4096 Sep 15 16:25 thodgkinson
> >>
> >> The problem is that I can not access the directory when browsing to it.
> >>
> >> tail /var/log/samba/blah:
> >>
> >> '/homes/users/thodgkinson' does not exist or is not a directory, when 
> >> connecting to [thodgkinson]
> >>
> >> Where have I gone wrong? Ideas?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Tim
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