[Samba] Samba Authentication of Local Linux Users
Michael Thrift
mthrift at western.edu
Fri Feb 24 20:18:10 GMT 2006
Hi,
I'm trying to setup a samba server that will serve linux shares out
to users accross the network. I'd like authentication to be done
locally, and I want it to authenticate against pam using the already
existing local linux user accounts. I am not authenticating domain
users, or windows users, and I don't want to use smbpasswd. Is there
some way to force samba to authenticate against pam, and only pam? My
goal is to not add an administrative load whatsoever. Currently, I have
my samba server setup, and I can access a global share okay. But
anytime I try and access my user home directory from the localhost
itself with the command smbclient after providing my password I get a
"NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE," without a single log entry. I've read
http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/pam.html which
says right at the beginning that it works for winbind, which I'm not
interested in. I just want to authenticate to pam, like ftp, or ssh, or
anyother service authenticates to pam. My /etc/pam.d looks good, and
any help is greatly appreciated, I've spent a few hours on this with no
success, I've searched every which way, and I just can seem to get it
figured out. Thanks in advance!
Mike.
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