Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 17:57:09 +0100 (IST) From: Dave Airlie <airlied@samba.org> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: <airlied@samba.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: msgget() in pamsmbd for pam_smb module ... Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.32.0105081756180.16144-100000@skynet> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105081346051.10294-100000@mobile.hub.org>
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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
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