[Samba] [Repost] PAM, Winbind, SSH and 'require_membership_of' in a forest...

Stefan Kania stefan at kania-online.de
Mon Nov 10 16:05:12 UTC 2025


To get AllowGroups to work, you mast set "winbind expand groups =1" if you are using nested groups increase the number.


Am 10.11.25 um 12:06 schrieb Marco Gaiarin via samba:
> 
> [I retry... still no feedback... thanks...]
> 
> We need to setup some samba member servers (RH/Oracle Linux, but i think it
> does not matter too much...) joined to an MS AD forest (5 domains in
> forest).
> 
> We are trying to configure SSH access to server, and the first try was to
> use sshd_config 'AllowGroups', but we have found some sort of 'chicken and
> egg' trouble, so users have to had done a successful logon to have group
> correctly enumerated and so be able to logon.
> 
> 
> A simple solution seems to NOT use 'AllowGroups' and add (in
> /etc/security/pam_winbind.conf or in pam_configuration, see later):
> 
>          require_membership_of=<our administration SID or group name>
> 
> looking at manpage seems to me that this parameters (even added in
> /etc/security/pam_winbind.conf) is taken into account only in 'password' PAM
> context, eg all group are taken into account for, eg, most notably 'session'
> PAM context.
> 
> 
> Anyway, i'm asking here if:
> 
> 1) this is the correct solution, or there's other solution for this 'chicken and
>   egg' trouble in group enumeration
> 
> 2) it is correct to add to 'require_membership_of' to /etc/security/pam_winbind.conf
>   or it is preferable to add only to ssh pam configuration (clearly in
> 'password' context).
> 
> 
> Thanks.
> 



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