[CentOS] help with samba and ldap on centos 5

Ross S. W. Walker rwalker at medallion.com
Mon Aug 6 15:34:49 UTC 2007


> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Bliss
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 11:16 AM
> To: centos at centos.org
> Subject: [CentOS] help with samba and ldap on centos 5
> 
> Hi everyone; I'm having some trouble with samba on a centos 5 
> box; the 
> box has been configured to authenticate against an ldap server via 
> authconfig....authentication for normal use (console, ssh) works 
> great....I'm having some trouble with samba using single ldap 
> users or 
> local users....It's rather weird, shares in which access restrictions 
> are based upon ldap groups are working fine, getent group shows local 
> and ldap groups, however attempting to assign access to a share for 
> either a single ldap user or a local user doesn't work, and 
> produces the 
> following error when trying to hit the share:
> smb_pam_passcheck: PAM: smb_pam_auth failed - Rejecting User myuser1 !
> 
> For local users, I've added local os accounts as well as 
> accounts in the 
> samba database with smbpasswd
> Any ideas? Thanks for your help.

Did you use authconfig to configure ldap auth or did you manually edit
the PAM database?

Can you post a copy of your /etc/sysconfig/authconfig,
/etc/pam.d/system-auth, and a copy of your /etc/nsswitch.conf?

-Ross

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