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Client Authentication:Ubuntu (view source)
Revision as of 12:57, 5 November 2009
, 12:57, 5 November 2009no edit summary
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{{Warning box| This is based upon limited testing and a small number of users via a VirtualBox virtual machine installation of Ubuntu 9.10. YMMV}}
{{Warning box| This is based upon limited testing and a small number of users via a VirtualBox virtual machine installation of Ubuntu 9.10. YMMV}}
{{Note box| If your reading this then this page is incomplete. Don't follow the instructions below because they haven't been verified}}
==Ubuntu 9.10 Authentication==
==Ubuntu 9.10 Authentication==
===Introduction===
===Introduction===
===Authentication Modifications===
===Authentication Modifications===
{{Warning box| Altering the pam system authentication files can seriously effect your ability to login in to the system. Take a backup of the /etc/pam.d directory and /etc/nsswitch.conf. Have a live CD available to give access and re-apply the backup files if you make a mistake and/or get locked out}}
{{Warning box| Altering the pam system authentication files can seriously effect your ability to login in to the system. Take a backup of the /etc/pam.d directory and /etc/nsswitch.conf. Have a live CD available to give access and re-apply the backup files if you make a mistake and/or get locked out}}
Open a Terminal cli and change to root privileges
sudo su
Using your favourite editor, open /etc/nsswitch.conf and find the hosts: line. Change it to
hosts: file wins dns
Change to the auth-client-config tool profile directory
cd /etc/auth-client-config/profile.d
Using your favourite editor create a new file called acc-sme and enter
[sme]
users: compat winbind
passwd: compat winbind
shadow: compat
Save and apply the pam authorisation changes
auth-client-config -a -p sme
=== Automount User Home Directories at Login===