[Samba] Samba 4.3.13 logon oddity on Solaris 10

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:01:12 +0200
Bernd Markgraf <bernd.markgraf at med.ovgu.de> wrote:

> 
> > > On the OS level everything works flawlessly (without using
> > > winbind).
> > > Login upon first try, kerberos ticket properly issued, uid/gid set
> > > to the numbers provided from the LDAP (Samba DC) backend. 
> > Well, yes it would work to allow login to the computer, it is
> > bypassing Samba and going direct to the info stored in AD.
> That part works just as intended.
> 
> > > I would simply expect smbd to use the uid/gid provided by whatever
> > > backend if present in the user's data.
> > Er no, smbd asks winbind for the info and if this doesn't know who
> > the user is it fails, but after the user logs in, then it does.
> In general I wouldn't care w hat mechanism is used to identify the
> user... But as I see in the logfile that the user is
> identified/authenticated via winbind:
> [2018/06/20
> 14:28:15.299349,  5] ../source3/lib/username.c:159(Get_Pwnam_internals)
> Get_Pwnam_internals did find user [markgrafb]! [2018/06/20
> 14:28:15.299447,  3] ../source3/auth/auth.c:249(auth_check_ntlm_password)
> check_ntlm_password: winbind authentication for user [markgrafb]
> succeeded
> 
> I don't quite understand why it fails to find the user a few step
> later.
> 
> > > The only thing not working as expected is when I try to connect to
> > > a share provided by smbd running on that machine. That takes two
> > > login attempts.
> > yes one fail and then success, I use winbind and just the success,
> > no fails.
> I would like to see that behaviour on my machine too ;-)

Then just do what I do, use only winbind.

> 
> > > > > What LDAP record ? You said the DC was a Samba AD DC, so I
> > > > > take
> > > > it you are referring to the users AD object. 
> > > Well, yes - assuming AD is just a fancy way to bundle
> > > LDAP+Kerberos ;-) You can just use about any LDAP tools to
> > > retrieve information from a Samba AD DC and see all attributes
> > > set. 
> > Yes and any Unix domain client running winbind can do the same. the
> > only place it doesn't fully work is on a Samba AD DC.
> How would you retrieve any random attribute from the user object using
> Samba cli tools?

What 'random' attribute are we talking about here ? If you use winbind,
it will obtain the username, home directory, shell etc.

If you are talking about something like an email server, for instance,
these usually can be set to use kerberos instead.
 
> 
> > > > The only place I would use something like nslcd (I take it this
> > > > is what you are using) is on a DC and only then to obtain the
> > > > users homedir and shell from AD.
> > > No, I'm not using nslcd. Solaris provides it's own set of tools
> > > and clients for various name service backends. Usually the
> > > different backends are accessed through nscd which deals with the
> > > clients for the different types of name services.
> > You cannot use nscd with winbind, their caches clash.
> I don't. But how you go about when you would the the need to use
> different name services on the same machine?

Do you store your users & groups in several places ? if not, why would
you need to use different name services ?

> 
> > > > You have to run winbind, so why not use it fully ?
> > > I already have 
> > >        idmap config MD-DZNE:backend = ad
> > >        idmap config MD-DZNE:schema_mode = rfc2307
> > >        idmap config MD-DZNE:range = 10000-999999
> > > 
> > >        winbind nss info = rfc2307
> > >        winbind use default domain = yes
> > >        winbind enum users = Yes
> > >        winbind enum groups = Yes
> > 
> > No you haven't, there are no lines for the '*' domain.
> As suggested I added
>        idmap config *:backend = tdb
>        idmap config *:range = 3000-7999
> 
> > > in my smb.conf and winbindd is running. 
> > > I just don't see why I should third party stuff to do user
> > > authentication on the OS side when the system's own mechanisms
> > > work just fine. And as long as I haven't figured out, why wbinfo
> > > doesn't return the id's I assigned to the users I'd rather not
> > > try to use winbind for unix logins on that machine.
> > > 
> > > markgrafb.niihau ~ > wbinfo -i markgrafb
> > > markgrafb:*:4294967295:4294967295::/home/markgrafb:/usr/bin/tcsh
> > > markgrafb.niihau ~ > getent passwd markgrafb
> > > markgrafb:x:10058:10001:Bernd
> > > Markgraf:/home/markgrafb:/usr/bin/tcsh
> > > 
> > > I would expect to see the same output from both commands.
> > 
> > You should:
> > 
> > rowland at devstation:~$ wbinfo -i rowland
> > rowland:*:10000:10000:Rowland Penny:/home/rowland:/bin/bash
> > rowland at devstation:~$ getent passwd rowland
> > rowland:*:10000:10000:Rowland Penny:/home/rowland:/bin/bash
> That's what I would expect to see. But even after adding the lines for
> the * domain and reloading the config I still see no difference.
> Still the same output as before...
> 
> > The only difference between your set up (apart for the OS) and mine,
> > I use winbind and have a correctly set up smb.conf.
> I should have a correctly setup smb.conf now too. I just don't use
> winbindd to provide users on the OS level... 

Why not ? using it means you have only place to set up and maintain.

> Where do I dig next?

You could try reading this:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Setting_up_Samba_as_a_Domain_Member

Rowland