Plattformen: SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 11-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11-SP4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP3, SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo 11-SP4, SUSE Linux ...

I'm planning on migrating a few of our Linux servers to use AD authentication via SAMBA/Winbind. Operating system will be openSUSE 11.3 x64. Our AD environment does not have UNIX extensions installed.

I am having quite possibly the hardest time ever getting my Linux box to work well with Samba 2.2.7 using winbind and joining an NT 4.0 domain. When I join the domain, everything seems to go well, the ...

If one changes the options on the left side of the uI, and save those options, it does not change the settings in smb.conf. It does, however, seem to insert most of the settings in the smb.conf file.

Plattformen: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5, SUSE Linux Enterprise High ...

Topic ===== buffer overflow in the password handling code in samba may lead to a remote root exploit Problem Description ===== There exists an exploitable bug in the password handling code in samba: ...

It recently occurred to me that in the eight years or so I've been writing this column, I've never covered file servers. I've covered secure file transfer, for example, via scp, rsync and vsftpd, ...

I am an advocate of centralized identity management and I think Active Directory makes a great repository for user account information. Interoperability can be a challenge, though. For example, you ...

Puppet A Samba/Winbind module of your choice And enough Hiera YAML (or your own Puppet module, if you choose) that will create home directories for your users This script was created a workaround to ...

There are ways to do this in Linux -- Native LDAP and Kerberos PAM and NSS modules; Samba Winbind; and System Security Services Daemon (SSSD) -- but they're not easy. There are also third-party ...

pam_winbind is a PAM module that can authenticate users against the local domain by talking to the Winbind daemon. pam_winbind supports several options which can either be set in the PAM configuration ...