Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 15:13:22 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Dave Airlie <airlied@samba.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: msgget() in pamsmbd for pam_smb module ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105081512590.10294-100000@mobile.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.32.0105081756180.16144-100000@skynet>
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d'oh, was gonna try the --disable-use-daemon, but never saw the non-root
option :( trying now, thanks ...
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Dave Airlie wrote:
>
> Hi,
> do a ./configure --help on the pam_smb module it should have an
> option allow non root or something .. /me is away from esay access and in
> a hurry so sorry I can't give any more info....
>
> Regards,
> Dave.
>
> On Tue, 8 May 2001, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
> >
> > Morning ...
> >
> > I'm trying to get the newest CVS of pam_smb working to
> > authenticate our Cyrus IMAPd users, and have come across a problem that
> > I'm not sure if easily rectifiable ...
> >
> > Whenever I connect and do an authenticate, I get the following
> > error message generated:
> >
> > May 8 13:47:36 new-relay pop3d[66057]: pamsmbd : msg_snd problem
> >
> > Looking at the code, its generated in queue_valid.c only:
> >
> > ============
> > if(msgsnd(mid, (struct msgbuf *)&msg, sizeof(msg), 0) == -1) {
> > syslog(LOG_AUTHPRIV | LOG_ERR, "pamsmbd : msg_snd problem");
> > return 2;
> > }
> > ============
> >
> > Now, I've been wracking my brain over this, trying to figure out
> > why it is that ftpd can authenticate no problem this way, but the cyrus
> > imapd can't ... when it hit me. Cyrus IMAPd runs as the user cyrus, not
> > as root ... the pamsmbd process runs as user root ... is there a
> > restriction that a is preventing a non-root user from authenticating
> > through the pamsmbd process?
> >
> > Thanks ...
> >
> >
> > Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
> > Systems Administrator @ hub.org
> > primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
> >
> >
>
> --
> David Airlie, Software Engineer
> http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied@skynet.ie
> pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person
>
>
>
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
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