[Samba] winbind and locking accounts?

Rowland penny rpenny at samba.org
Tue Jul 30 15:15:18 UTC 2019


On 30/07/2019 15:39, Jeff Sadowski via samba wrote:
> winbindd -V
> Failed to create /var/log/samba/cores for user 11490 with mode 0700
> Unable to setup corepath for winbindd: Permission denied
> Version 4.10.5
>
> cat /etc/samba/smb.conf
> [global]
>     log level = 3 winbind:5
>     winbind cache time = 10
>     security = ads
>     realm = SUB.DOMAIN
>     workgroup = SUB
>     idmap config * : backend = tdb
>     idmap config * : range = 2000-7999
>     idmap config SUB:backend = ad
>     idmap config SUB:schema_mode = rfc2307
>     idmap config SUB:range = 8000-9999999
>     idmap config SUB:unix_nss_info = yes
>     idmap config SUB:unix_primary_group = yes
>     winbind use default domain = yes
>     restrict anonymous = 2
>
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 8:11 AM Jeff Sadowski <jeff.sadowski at gmail.com> wrote:
>> One of my colleagues at work brought to my attention that  they could
>> continuously attempt different passwords on a linux machine connected
>> via AD via winbind. I did a test or too and it appears not to lock the
>> account after numerous attempts. Is there a way to get the behavior
>> like windows where too many invalid passwords puts a temporary lock on
>> the account?

It should work, this was implemented back at Samba 4.2.0, what does this 
show:

samba-tool domain passwordsettings show

Note: there is a 60 minute grace period with the old password.

Rowland





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