[Samba] Samba 4 and freeradius

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Tue Feb 26 23:26:31 MST 2013


On Wed, 2013-02-27 at 12:17 +0800, Kinglok, Fong wrote:
> In fact, I have tried using NTLM already.
> 
> I have successfully setup winbind bundled with Samba 4, including the steps to join Samba 4 as member server and start up winbindd as daemon.
> 
> However, I encounter two difficulties with using NTLM to authenticate freeradius to Samba 4.
> - I have to run freeradius as root in order to read output from winbindd.  Even I change the permission / ownership of /usr/local/samba/var/run/winbindd to freerad.  It still cannot work!

You need to change the winbind_privileged directory, not the winbindd
directory.  The group ownership of this directory should be a group that
servers doing NTLM authentication (such as squid, apache, pptpd and
freeradius) are in. 

Andrew Bartlett

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