OK guys, before I spend too much time playing with all the options and reading lengthy HOWTO's I'd like to know if someone can point me in the right direction for this problem. My apologies if this is a newbie question. #The situation# I have a client using RH Linux 6.2 with PAM 0.72 RPM loaded. They are using this particular server as their Samba based print server. They have been complaining for some time about "slow printing" and "waiting a long time for the printers to respond". When I reviewed the /var/log/messages file I see multiple entries similar to the following: Apr 9 13:48:13 <servername> PAM_unix[771]: authentication failure; (uid=0) -> <username> for samba service I have upgraded their RedHat RPM's to the lastest available for PAM and Samba both. ( PAM 0.72 and Samba 2.0.10 ). Listed below is the /etc/pam.d/samba file (I modified it to "optional"): auth optional /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth account optional /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth and the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file which I'v modified slightly from the original: #%PAM-1.0 # This file is auto-generated. # User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run. auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so try_first_pass likeauth md5 shadow debug auth required /lib/security/pam_deny.so account sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so account required /lib/security/pam_deny.so password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 password sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so try_first_pass use_authtok md5 shadow password required /lib/security/pam_deny.so session required /lib/security/pam_unix.so I have verified that while they are waiting the "authentication failure" entries are logged repeatedly until magically it works and the print request is accepted. Once thing that they do here that is slightly different from the norm is they have Samba set for "encrypt passwords = no" and the appropriate registry modifications to their Win98 workstations. As this is an internal only connected server, we aren't even that concerned with authenticating print requests. Suggestions? Or other files you need to see? Jim Williams jimw@linux-class.com
