I've got weird things happening with winbind authentication - sometimes
it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Sometimes it works for one username, and not for the other, sometimes it
works for both, sometimes neither...
I'm a departmental admin trying to authenticate against our central
windows domain - so I've no control of the windows side. The client
machine is a fresh redhat FC2 box with samba as supplied.
If I catch it at the right moment, I can ssh bloggs@localhost and get
in, where bloggs is my windows username and I enter my windows password.
Then five mins later it wont work, I'll get 'permission denied'.
Looking at the winbindd log file, the system seems to suddenly flip
from looking for user 'bloggs' to 'NOUSER':
2004/07/14 18:11:24, 3]
nsswitch/winbindd_misc.c:winbindd_interface_version(261)
[28531]: request interface version
[2004/07/14 18:11:24, 3]
nsswitch/winbindd_misc.c:winbindd_priv_pipe_dir(297)
[28531]: request location of privileged pipe
[2004/07/14 18:11:24, 3] nsswitch/winbindd_user.c:winbindd_getpwnam(122)
[28531]: getpwnam bloggs
[2004/07/14 18:11:24, 3] nsswitch/winbindd_rpc.c:query_user(379)
rpc: query_user rid=S-1-5-21-65601539-726015645-1725909577-9396
[2004/07/14 18:11:24, 1] nsswitch/winbindd_user.c:winbindd_getpwnam(180)
error getting user info for user '[CENTRAL]\[bloggs]'
[2004/07/14 18:11:25, 3] nsswitch/winbindd_user.c:winbindd_getpwnam(122)
[28531]: getpwnam NOUSER
[2004/07/14 18:11:25, 1] nsswitch/winbindd_user.c:winbindd_getpwnam(157)
user 'NOUSER' does not exist
[and then a bunch more lines about NOUSER, ending with]
[2004/07/14 17:51:25, 2] nsswitch/winbindd_pam.c:winbindd_pam_auth(314)
Plain-text authentication for user NOUSER returned
NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER (PAM: 10)
I'm not sure if its worth tracking this down, since I've almost given
up with this. The next step was to be mounting windows home directories
on the Linux box, and this is trick since the path on the windows server
isn't simple... Plus there's no symlinks on smbfs... So I may have to
find another way...
Cheers,
Baz
