For a long time now I have reported both to samba and to redhat a ghost authentication failure when using pam. In 1998 someone submitted a patch for password.c under samba 1.9.18 and it never was applied. The patch no longer works with pass_check.c but by comparing the patch to the source I understand this spurious error can be supressed using PAM_SILENT=0. This error is not a show stopper but it puts a slight delay in clients connecting from Windows to samba as it coughs up a false authentication failure and then allows access anyway. I feel that removing false errors from syslog plus decreasing the connection delay (which can be significant if you add more users) is worthwhile. My problem is that I am not a programmer and need to figure out how to set this and re-compile and test so that I can propose this again as an updated fix to both samba and bugzilla/redhat. The samba 2.0.7 pass_check.c source code even mentions this but provides no options on how to do this. Feel free to let me know that I am barking up the wrong mailling list. Or other forms of advise. TIA Henri J. Schlereth -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Just because you think that we are done with Nature doesnt mean Nature is done with us. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
