Yee haw! That was it! There was no /etc/pam.d/samba file. I just copied one of
the others that looked reasonable and it works just fine!
Thank you again!
- Gary
Joe Steele wrote:
>
> If you have PAM installed, then swat uses PAM to verify the
> user/password pair. You might check that /etc/pam.d/samba
> exists and makes sense. You might also check your logs for
> authentication failures such as:
>
> PAM_pwdb[12415]: 1 authentication failure; (uid=0) -> root for samba service
>
> I doubt it makes any difference, but you could try giving the
> user/pass with the URL:
>
> http://root:>@localhost:901/
>
> swat should accept any user/pass combo that is valid for logging
> into linux (subject to whatever limits PAM imposes). Once validated,
> the options available to the user depend on the user's read/write
> access to the smb.conf file. Naturally, root is given full access.
>
> --Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary S. Mackay [SMTP:">Gary@EdisonInfo.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2000 1:37 PM
> To: ">ale@ale.org
> Subject: [ale] Samba and swat
>
> I just installed the latest version of samba (2.0.7) and all is well with it.
> My problem is the swat web interface. I made the changes to the services and
> inetd.conf file and I do get a login prompt when I access http:/localhost:901,
> but I can't login. Where is the user/passwd stuff stored for swat? How do I
> find out what it is after?
>
> - Gary
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