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Date:      Tue, 16 May 2006 19:43:45 +0400
From:      Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru>
To:        "Dominic Marks" <dom@helenmarks.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: xdm + pam + winbind, what am i missing?
Message-ID:  <60541134@srv.sem.ipt.ru>
In-Reply-To: <4890.195.12.22.194.1147785750.squirrel@mail.helenmarks.co.uk> (Dominic Marks's message of "Tue, 16 May 2006 14:22:30 %2B0100 (BST)")
References:  <4890.195.12.22.194.1147785750.squirrel@mail.helenmarks.co.uk>

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On Tue, 16 May 2006 14:22:30 +0100 (BST) Dominic Marks wrote:

> I must be missing something because I can't get xdm to work happily
> with pam_winbind. The 6.1 system is joined to a Windows domain and
> aware of domain users. I log on to the machine using my domain account
> via SSH and all is well.

> I've enabled xdm and restarted init. Connections from any host are
> permitted. I have also modified the pam.d/xdm file to use the winbind
> pam module for authentication.

> I get a login screen and my username and password are correctly
> checked against Active Directory. I have setup a ~/.xsession file
> which should log me in and start a Gnome environment.

> What actually happens is that the connection seems to drop and
> reconnect and I end up back at an xdm prompt. In the system messages
> log I have the following:

> xdm: pam_sm_close_session(): no utmp record for DESKTOP:0

> * DESKTOP is the hostname of my desktop system from which I am
> connecting.

> I tried commenting out the session line in pam.d/xdm which this
> message comes from, it removes the error but doesn't change the
> behaviour so I assume it is not directly related.

> I couldn't find anything in the Handbook to help me on my way.
> If anyone could tell me the missing link I would appreciate it greatly.

Can't say for sure if it may help you, but I also had problems with
xdm, pam and auth. The result was:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/96436

Hope that it might help you.


WBR
-- 
Boris B. Samorodov, Research Engineer
InPharmTech Co,     http://www.ipt.ru
Telephone & Internet Service Provider



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