[Samba] password for swat

[Eric]

I don't use OS X x or pam, so I have to bow out at this point.  
(Although the fact that I don't use pam, and I have no problems 
operating swat may contain a hint.)

Eric Hines

Roman Budzianowski wrote:

> Thanks.
>
> On OS X 10.4 swat is run from launchd and the equivalent of conf file  
> is swat.plist. This file seems to control only the start up.  
> smbpasswd refuses to change any passwords (though it asks for it  
> first!). The messages in the log file indicate that the  
> authentication is done through pam. I am not familiar with pam, but  
> the file /etc/pam.d/chkpasswd contains the following:
> # chkpasswd: auth account
> auth       required       pam_unix.so
> account    required       pam_unix.so
>
> which I guess means that unix password should be enough (but is not).
>
> Below is swat.log. I don't like the rhost 0.0.0.0, but don't know how  
> to fix it. Is swat.plist the right place?
>
>   pass_check: Checking (PAM) password for user root (l=9)
> [2005/12/10 22:56:36, 4] /SourceCache/samba/samba-92.13/samba/source/ 
> auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_start(463)
>   smb_pam_start: PAM: Init user: root
> [2005/12/10 22:56:36, 4] /SourceCache/samba/samba-92.13/samba/source/ 
> auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_start(480)
>   smb_pam_start: PAM: setting rhost to: 0.0.0.0
> [2005/12/10 22:56:36, 4] /SourceCache/samba/samba-92.13/samba/source/ 
> auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_start(489)
>   smb_pam_start: PAM: setting tty
> [2005/12/10 22:56:36, 4] /SourceCache/samba/samba-92.13/samba/source/ 
> auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_start(497)
>   smb_pam_start: PAM: Init passed for user: root
> [2005/12/10 22:56:36, 4] /SourceCache/samba/samba-92.13/samba/source/ 
> auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_auth(514)
>   smb_pam_auth: PAM: Authenticate User: root
> [2005/12/10 22:56:36, 2] /SourceCache/samba/samba-92.13/samba/source/ 
> auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_auth(518)
>   smb_pam_auth: PAM: Athentication Error for user root
> [2005/12/10 22:56:36, 2] /SourceCache/samba/samba-92.13/samba/source/ 
> auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_error_handler(77)
>   smb_pam_error_handler: PAM: Authentication Failure :  Authentication 
> failure
> [2005/12/10 22:56:36, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-92.13/samba/source/ 
> auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_passcheck(814)
>   smb_pam_passcheck: PAM: smb_pam_auth failed - Rejecting User root !
> [2005/12/10 22:56:36, 4] /SourceCache/samba/samba-92.13/samba/source/ 
> auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_end(444)
>   smb_pam_end: PAM: PAM_END OK.
>
>
>
> Roman Budzianowski
> roman at budzianowski.net
>
>
>
> On Dec 11, 2005, at 8:21 AM, Eric Hines wrote:
>
>> There are a couple of things you may need to do.  One is to write a  
>> swat configuration file. There's a good example on page 53 of Ts,  
>> Eckstein, and Collier-Brown's _Using Samba_ (O'Reilly pub) that  
>> works well for Fedora Core and SUSE.  You may need to tailor it  some 
>> for your OS, but I think most of the tailoring will be in  where you 
>> have to put the file.  Also, the example includes the  line 
>> "only-from = localhost."  You may need to change that to "only- from 
>> = 127.0.0.1." Localhost almost always works, but sometimes  it's 
>> necessary to use the IP address instead.  Also, after having  
>> installed the file, don't forget to restart (or start in the first  
>> place) your inetd or xinetd--whichever daemon your OS uses.
>>
>> You also may need to add root's password to smbpasswd.
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> Eric Hines
>>
>> At 12/10/05 03:36, Roman Budzianowski wrote:
>>
>>> I got SWAT running on OS X 10.4 and when I go to localhost:901 I am
>>> asked for password. However neither root nor admin work (I enabled
>>> root). I get:
>>>
>>> The name or password entered for area "SWAT" on localhost:901 was
>>> incorrect. Please try again.
>>>
>>> Thanks for help,
>>>
>>> Roman Budzianowski
>>> roman at budzianowski.net
>>>
>>>
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