Re: Windows ADS

Thanks James and everyone I will try this tomorrow. So I will let you guys
know how it goes.
Thanks again,

Luke

On 6/20/06, James Zuelow <e5z8652@zuelow.net> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 20 June 2006 17:04, Luke D wrote:
> > I do want it to make the user account and home directory but I don't
> want
> > to have to manual sync the users.
> >
>
> Since you already have Samba authenticating against AD, you're most of the
> way
> there. Winbind can match a username and password. All you need to do is
> tell PAM that the authenticated user can log in.
>
> Grab the Samba howto collection and after a quick
> `cp -R /etc/pam.d /root/backup-pam.d` hack away at PAM. Basically, you'll
> want to put pam_winbind.so into the login, auth and session stanzas.
> pam_mkhomedir.so actually makes the user directories.
>
> The howto is here:
>
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf
>
> There is a detailed discussion of PAM and winbind at p.578. (Or p.645 in
> xpdf
> speak.) You can probably ignore the compile instructions, since most
> distros
> pre-install pam_winbind.so. Also, at least in Debian, PAM isn't
> configured
> in one monolithic file as shown in the example. There are individual
> files
> for session, etc. The entries are the same though.
>
> Cheers,
>
> James
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