[Samba] Daily changetrustpw breaks authentication

[Michael Gasch]

after some investigation i have a question for you:
are you only running winbindd or smbd, too? as i understood "net rpc..." 
is only necessary on hosts running only winbindd (e.g. for squid).

greez

Jim Moser wrote:
> Anyone have any thoughts on this?  Is changetrustpw even required?  Are 
> other people using it with success?
> 
> Thanks,
> -Jim
> 
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Jim Moser wrote:
> 
>> Samba 3.0.21b
>>
>> The Samba docs indicate [0] we should be running changetrustpw [1] at some 
>> point (cron.daily) to update a machines trust account.
>>
>> However, I've seen multiple instances with 2 seperate AD environments 
>> where this breaks our ability to enumerate/authenticate with the domain.  
>> In both instances, we see something similar to the following in the 
>> winbind logs:
>>
>> (ntlm_auth): [2006/03/14 14:11:16, 0] utils/ntlm_auth.c:winbind_pw_check(429)
>> (ntlm_auth): Login for user [DOMAIN]\[USER]@[ITOPER] failed due to [Access denied]
>> (ntlm_auth): [2006/03/14 14:11:16, 0] utils/ntlm_auth.c:manage_squid_ntlmssp_request(603)
>> (ntlm_auth): NTLMSSP BH: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED
>>
>> Re-joining the host to the domain fixes the problem, even though it still 
>> appears to have had a valid machine account in the domain prior to.
>>
>> Yes, I'm using NTLM auth with Squid.  I don't think it's Squid related, as 
>> wbinfo -t (ie not Squid) returns:
>>
>> [$]# wbinfo -t
>> checking the trust secret via RPC calls failed
>> error code was NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED (0xc0000022)
>> Could not check secret
>>
>> I had another AD environment where changetrustpw never resulted in this 
>> disjoin.  I don't see any smoking guns that point to any differences in 
>> the environments that might account for this.
>>
>> I've searched around looking for possible causes, but I haven't seen any 
>> solid clues as to how to fix this.

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