[Samba] SSH SSO without keytab file

[Rowland Penny]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:46:49 +0000
Harpoon via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> > ...
> > Use : getent passwd username
> > Check if wbinfo -u works also.
> 
> With and without 'backend : ad', 'wbinfo -u' works fine. However,
> with 'backend : ad', `getent passwd administrator` doesn't show AD
> user; hence I'm unable to su or ssh.
> 

'wbinfo' goes direct to AD, if this doesn't work, you definitely have
problems ;-)
However, just because wbinfo works, doesn't mean that your Unix OS will
know who your AD users are, this is where Samba and the winbind backend
comes in, until you get this working, you cannot rely on anything else.

Rowland