samba - Aug 2006 - Pam [default=bad success=ok user_unknown=ignore], Winbind

Winbind has been working great for domain logons (have to restart it
every few weeks, but other than that, works great!), but today I noticed
I couldn't log in as a local user.  For instance, if my local user was
test, and I tried to log in, I'd get this in /var/log/messages:

Aug 22 12:14:00 mgprisvr pam_winbind[8346]: request failed, but PAM error 0!
Aug 22 12:14:00 mgprisvr pam_winbind[8346]: internal module error
(retval = 3, user = `test')

There were no errors in the winbind.log file.

In my /etc/pam.d/system-auth, I found this line:

account     [default=bad success=ok user_unknown=ignore]    pam_winbind.so

I Googled that line (and parts of it) but had no luck figuring out what
it was doing.

I changed it to:

account     sufficient    pam_winbind.so

and now I can log in with local accounts, as well as domain (winbind)
accounts.

I have two questions:

A) Is this some kind of bug with winbind, or did some other tool
mis-configure my system-auth file with this line?

B) What does the [default=bad success=ok user_unknown=ignore] line do,
and does it matter that I removed it?

Thanks!

Nolan Garrett

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Nolan Garrett wrote:
> Winbind has been working great for domain logons (have to restart it
> every few weeks, but other than that, works great!), but today I noticed
> I couldn't log in as a local user.  For instance, if my local user was
> test, and I tried to log in, I'd get this in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Aug 22 12:14:00 mgprisvr pam_winbind[8346]: request failed, but PAM error
> 0! Aug 22 12:14:00 mgprisvr pam_winbind[8346]: internal module error
> (retval = 3, user = `test')
What version of samba? (I *think* samba-3.0.23 had this problem, but it was
fixed in 3.0.23a)

-- Rex