[Samba] samba with customized ldap backend

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 12 Oct 2016 15:26:10 +0530 (IST)
Arun Gupta via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> 
> Sir,
> 
> 
>   No AD, that's some NT4 domain.
> Yes, it has no AD
> 
> - No Winbind because Winbind is using samacccountname as user login
> and not UID. --> Not configured
> 
> > - Issue happens on Linux or UNIX clients.
> On both client
> 
> 
> I am using sssd and pam_ldap for user retrival and modified 
> pam_login_attribute (pam_ldap.conf file) to username instead of uid
> (by default value) so I am very well able to authenticate with many
> services like ssh, smtp auth etc but in sabma case it is trying to
> contact uid='numeric value' instead of username=test1.
> 
> I think somewhere in configuration, we may define username attribute 
> instead of uid which is samba configured.
> 

If you are using sssd, then this isn't a Samba problem, because sssd
isn't part of Samba, can I suggest that you will get better help from
the sssd-users mailing list.

Rowland