[Samba] Winbind / Samba auth problem after username change

[mathias dufresne]

PS: Rowland questions are still relevant ;)

2016-09-06 13:30 GMT+02:00 mathias dufresne <infractory at gmail.com>:

> Hum...
>
> All users are OK except the one(s) you changed there names. No other
> modification in configuration, all others users are working well.
> Is that true?
>
> This broken user is correctly shown using "getent passwd <NEW username>"?
> Is that true?
>
> Can you use that user on system side, I would try, as root, "su - <NEW
> username>". This last test is to verify all is well configured about that
> user with new name. If it complains about missing home directory or
> anything else, that could be the cause SSH refuse to let that user connect
> on the system.
>
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> 2016-09-06 11:36 GMT+02:00 Rowland Penny via samba <samba at lists.samba.org>
> :
>
>> On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 09:15:09 +0000
>> Julian Zielke via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Mathias,
>> >
>> > thanks for your advice on how to use getent. However you’re
>> > mentioning SSSD which is working fine. I was referring to it because
>> > we changed to that method lately but the server having the problem is
>> > NOT using this new method but the old winbind+samba combination.
>> >
>> > Sorry it it was confusing.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Julian
>>
>> If you are using a fairly recent version of sssd, you are using a
>> version of a Samba winbind lib, so just changing to sssd shouldn't give
>> problems.
>>
>> First and foremost, all your users & groups are stored in AD as windows
>> users & groups i.e. they have a SID-RID
>> So if you change a login name, it shouldn't affect anything else, so
>> when I asked how you changed the login name, perhaps I should have
>> asked, what did you change ?
>>
>> Rowland
>>
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