[CLUE-Tech] Pam, Winbind, Kerberos and Samba

[Tim Harris]

I have this set up at home where I log on to my linux box(Fedora Core 1 
Kernel 2.6.2-1.74) using Kerberos and an Active Directory database on my 
Domain Controller (Win2k). I got this going after a lot of trial and 
error. I tried setting up Winbind so that I could authenticate using 
LDAP. I managed to hose up the Pam /etc/pam.d/login file so that I 
couldn't log in directly into the console. Luckily I had an SSH client 
on my Windows computer and I was able to restore the original login file 
and all is  back to normal (no ldap or windbindd service). After that I 
started looking at all the Pam documentation I could get my hands on to 
help me understand it better. But I wasn't able to find much about how 
Pam interacts with Winbind, Kerberos, and Samba. I was wondering if 
anyone could recommend a book or point me to some good resources on the 
web related to this.  Is there anyone else interested in this kind of 
thing?

Tim Harris
CLUE Member and Enthusiastic Newbie
timdharris at comcast.net