On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 21:21 +0800, Ian Bert Tusil wrote: > When I restarted winbind, I get an success restart but I get this and > is shown in /var/log/samba/log.winbindd > > > [2005/07/01 21:18:16, 1] nsswitch/winbindd.c:main(864) > winbindd version 3.0.14a-Ubuntu started. > Copyright The Samba Team 2000-2004 > [2005/07/01 21:18:16, 0] lib/util_sock.c:create_pipe_sock(1206) > invalid permissions on socket directory /var/run/samba/winbindd_privileged > open_winbind_socket: Success > > I changed the permission of this directory under /var/run/samba/ > > drwxrwxrwx 2 proxy proxy 4096 2005-07-01 15:40 winbindd_privileged > > event this, i get the same error.. > > drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 2005-07-01 15:40 winbindd_privileged > > > need help thnx, That directory permission bits are dangerous, as they would allow an unprivileged local user on the proxy box to mount a brute force password guessing account against your domain users. The correct permissions for that directory are: owner: root group: proxy mode: 0750 Kinkie