[ale] Authentication problem

[George A. Nies]

I've been on the same samba version for almost two years...]
The version I'm running (sorry don't have the number off the top of my
head)
tries to cross check the username win95 passes it against /etc/passwd. 
Your 
problem might be related...  is "jeff" in /etc/passwd?
The syslog entry, specifically "PAM_pwdb" suggests an /etc/passwd
lookup.

	-George

Dan Newcombe wrote:
> 
> Are you sure the win95 box isn't sending encrypted passwords?
> Samba doesn't do them that well.
> 
> On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Jeffery Tillotson wrote:
> 
> > I am running SAMBA 1.9.17p4 on a Red Hat Linux 5.0 (kernal 2.032) box.  The
> > problem I just noticed is an error that looks like this in the
> > /var/log/message file
> >       Jul 31 08:36:17 linux PAM_pwdb[1437]: 1 authentication failure; (uid=0) ->
> >       jeff for samba service
> >
> > SAMBA holds profiles for users for win95 machines as well as giving share
> > rights to directories and printers(basic SAMBA stuff).  The thing I don't
> > understand is I still have the proper access to printers, directories, and
> > everything else even with this message.
> >
> > Could someone offer a bit of assistance on this?  I have read the
> > documentation in /usr/doc/samba-1.9.14p4 and the man pages and havn't come
> > up with an answer.
> >
> > Is this message something I shold be concerned with?  If it is something to
> > be concerned with, any ideas on how to fix it?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jeff
> >