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Date:      Tue, 26 Jan 1999 20:04:48 +0000
From:      Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk>
To:        John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>
Cc:        Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com>, Chris Stenton <jacs@gnome.co.uk>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: old version of PAM in 3.0-stable stopping Samba working? 
Message-ID:  <199901262004.UAA02259@hawk.gnome.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 26 Jan 1999 13:07:04 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901261258110.6851-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> 

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> On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Matt Behrens wrote:
> 
> > It looks to me that PAM isn't quite "Linux-compatible", and Samba
> > was definitely written for Linux PAM.
> 
> How so?  It looked to me like the original poster was just trying
> to use pam modules for a services they don't implement:
> 
> > : samba   account requisite       pam_cleartext_pass_ok.so
> > : samba   account required        pam_unix.so                     try_first_pass
> 
> That doesn't mean the library is broken or incompatible, just
> that our modules are different.  (And as I said, somewhat
> minimalist at this point in time.)
> 

Ok taking out the above as requested gives the following error

Jan 26 19:53:55 buzzard smbd: no modules loaded for `samba' service

Which I believe is coming from the PAM library. So, it looks like a PAM service
is required for samba account management. I think I will take Matt Behrens
route at the moment to get things up and running.


Chris


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