[Samba] pam_winbind Appears to need a Network Connection to Succeed at Offline Authentication

[Rowland Penny]

On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 08:05:15 -0500
"John R. Graham via samba" <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:

> On 11/29/24 12:04, Marco Gaiarin via samba wrote:
> > Mandi! John R. Graham via samba
> >    In chel di` si favelave...
> >
> >> When I put winbindd in offline mode,
> > RFC2307? A known bug:
> >
> > 	https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15405
> Hi, Marco. Yes, RFC2307. Your work-around (rid idmap back end) works
> for me, too! Offline login is now functional. Currently this is only
> a minor inconvenience for me because the templated shell and home
> directory values correspond to what I'm actually using on my Linux
> domain members.
> 
> 

I think that what is happening here is that Samba is caching the
username, uidNumber & gidNumber, but none of the other rfc2307
attributes, so when the network is disconnected, the 'missing' rfc2307
attributes cannot be found, even though winbind tries, so it just
'hangs'.

Rowland