[Samba] Re: winbind and system-auth (on FC3)

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue May 17 15:56:30 GMT 2005


Basil Copeland wrote:
> I'm trying to use winbind for authentication.  By all the usual
> indices ("wbinfo -t, -u" and "getent passwd") windbind itself is
> working.  So I used system-config-authentication (the Redhat/Fedora
> GUI) to enable winbind. But my winbind users are not able to log in.
> When using system-config-authentication, shouldn't the
> /etc/pam.d/system-auth file show some changes to support winbind? 

I think it only modifies /etc/nsswitch.conf

I've seen winbind take several minutes a get "warmed up" or whatever 
before authentication starts to work.  ???  Maybe that's happening to 
you too.

-- Rex



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