Hello all! I am trying to setup a small lab of centos5 computers for students attending my university. The lab machines authenticate against a mysql database using pam_mysql. All the home directories of the students are kept on a samba server and mounted to the lab computers in /home. The samba server and all the lab machines have the same passwd file and they are kept updated through scripts. If the person logging in has a samba username/password and already has a home directory on the samba server then everything works fine, authentication works great, they get thier files, no one else has rights to them. Its a perfect situation. My problem occurs when a new user wishes to login for the first time. I am currently stuck on trying to do two things:
1. Create home directories on the samba mount for the new user. (I was able to do this if root on the lab machine is not not squashed but this is a security problem) 2. sync the password used for authentication to the smbpasswd file on the samba server. This may be a problem with my config files, to tell you the truth I really dont understand exactly how to configure things in /etc/samba/smb.conf I am trying to use pam_mount to trigger the samba file on the samba server which then in turn has a line that uses pam_mkhomedir.so to create the home directories on first login. I am also trying to use pam_smbpass.so to sync the username and password to the smbpasswd file. here is my pam file for login: ############################################################################ auth requisite pam_nologin.so session required pam_env.so readenv=1 auth optional pam_smbpass.so migrate debug audit auth sufficient pam_unix.so use_first_pass auth required pam_mount.so auth required pam_mysql.so ***Auth Stuff*** auth optional pam_group.so account include common-account session include common-session session required pam_limits.so password include common-password ############################################################################ Please note: The reason I have the pam_smbpass line above the pam_unix line is because I need the pam_unix line to be sufficient so that local root logins are possible. If anyone has any suggestions or a better way to get the same result please let me know :) -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba