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List:       pam-smb
Subject:    AW: [Pam_smb] Solaris authentication vs. NT PDC
From:       "Dormeyer, Volker" <Volker.Dormeyer () Dresdner-Bank ! com>
Date:       2001-12-13 11:01:20
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Hello,

if you are using pam_smb 1.1.6, the "pamsmbd is not running" message should
not appear. As far as I know pamsmbd is implemented in development version
1.9.x and CVS tree. Are you sure, that it is same pam_smb version on both
solaris 7 and 8?
"pamsmbd" is used for UNIX/Windows user mapping. 

regards,
Volker

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Von: Fish Flowers [mailto:fish@uchicago.edu]
Gesendet am: Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2001 21:54
An: pam_smb@csn.ul.ie
Betreff: Re: [Pam_smb] Solaris authentication vs. NT PDC

On Sat, 8 Dec 2001, Dave Airlie wrote:

> look in syslogs to see what it produces for openssh ...
> 
> pam_smb doesn't use samba... you should have something in /var/adm/ or
> /var/log on Solaris ... probably /var/adm/messages or /var/log/syslog...

OK, I've made some progress, but now I'm lost again. Here's the thing --
this particular machine (a Sun Ultra 60, in case it matters) is actually
dual-booting Solaris 8 and Solaris 7. SSH and pam_smb work quite happily
under the Solaris 8 install. Fantastic. Wonderful.

The strange thing is, they don't work under the Solaris 7 install. I'm
using the exact same configuration files, and the user I'm trying to log
in as does indeed exist in the /etc/passwd file (with a * password), but
it still doesn't work.

Here's the relevant entries in /var/log/authlog:

sshd[301]: pam_authenticate: error Authentication failed
sshd[301]: No Local authentication done, relying on other modules for 
password file entry.
sshd[301]: pamsmbd is not running, no authentication possible
sshd[301]: pamsmbd is not running, no authentication possible
sshd[301]: pam_smb: got back 2 username fish
sshd[301]: pam_authenticate: error Can not retrieve authentication info
sshd[301]: Failed password for fish from [wherever]
sshd[301]: Connection closed by [wherever]

Well, sure enough, no service called pamsmbd is running -- but then, it
isn't running on the Solaris 8 machine, either, and that authenticates
just fine. In fact, /usr/local/sbin/pamsmbd simply does not exist on the
Solaris 8 machine.

When I attempt to manually start pamsmbd, I get:

tdb_open failed: No such file or directory

What is it looking for? Where should it be?

Fish.
many thanks


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