Re: Windows ADS

From: Luke D <jules.inu@gmail.com>
Date: Thu Jun 22 2006 - 17:22:09 AKDT

As a update everything is going great. Except Samba. Which is funny if you
ask me. But users can now bee added to groups on Windows and created and are
able to log into the Linux box. Thanks for all your help. I don't think I
could have done it with out.
Thanks again,
Luke

On 6/20/06, Luke D <jules.inu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.645in 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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