[Samba] unrecognized pam_winbind/gdm error.

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Oct 11 10:14:50 GMT 2005


On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 15:47 -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:56:21PM -0500, Matt Sellers wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I have successfully setup winbind with clients pointing to a central ldap
> > server, and have had great results for ssh service logins, however i get
> > wierd problems with gdm login attempts after winbind has been running for a
> > while.
> > 
> > Oct 10 14:45:26 ctilinux6 pam_winbind[2398]: request failed, but PAM error
> > 0!
> > Oct 10 14:45:26 ctilinux6 pam_winbind[2398]: internal module error (retval =
> > 3, user = `mahmed')
> > Oct 10 14:45:29 ctilinux6 gdm-binary[2398]: Couldn't authenticate user
> > 
> > This error can be resolved by restarting winbind, thus allowing users to
> > login again. Ive setup a cron job to do this every few hours but I want to
> > find the root of the problem...
> > 
> > many thanks to to developers and supporters of the samba project, im
> > documenting all my setup notes / issues and am going to post them to a
> > website soon....
> 
> What version of Samba ? That would help with narrowing down any winbindd
> issues.

This rather smells like pam_winbind/winbindd version mismatch to me.  

Just an idea,

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
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Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College  http://hawkerc.net
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