[Samba] Fwd: WINBIND security methods does not load

Doug VanLeuven roamdad at sonic.net
Fri Feb 10 20:30:16 GMT 2006


David Shapiro wrote:
> Hmm, I am not sure why this worked, but I moved my WINBIND stanza in
> /usr/lib/security/methods.cfg up in the file prior to the PAM stanza,
> and save it.  After this, I was able to load the module.  Any ideas on
> why this worked?

Because aix will scan methods.cfg sequentially starting with the
first entry and use the first one that satisfies the options
defined in /etc/security.

You don't really need pam and it makes a lot of sense to get pam
working on aix without samba first if you want to go that way.

Doug




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