Subject: Re: Netatalk + PAM on RedHat 6.2
From: andrew morgan (morgan@orst.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2000 - 10:01:09 EDT
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Alexi Margo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am new to Netatalk, but have successfully installed it on a test machine,
> running RedHat 6.2. Macintosh machines are able to connect to and use shares
> correctly when connecting as "guest". The problem is that I need to
> authenticate users specifically via PAM, since authentication is handled by
> a Microsoft NT Domain Controller (I have successfully got PAM using this).
>
> The problem is that despite following all the instructions in the various
> FAQ's (specifically those at http://www.thehamptons.com/anders/netatalk/),
> Netatalk does *not* appear to be using PAM.
>
> > [root@miserver /root]# ldd /usr/local/atalk/etc/atalkd
> > libc.so.5 => /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000a000)
atalkd is the appletalk router portion of netatalk. Check afpd to see if
it is linked against libpam.
> Since atalkd is not dependant on libpam, I assume that PAM is not being used
> for authentication. Attempted logins are not being logged in syslog as would
> normally be the case with PAM. To summarise, the changes that I made to
> netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.1 before compiling it were:
You probably want to use a newer version than asun2.1.1. Asun2.1.3 is the
latest "stable" release. Netatalk v1.5 will be released soon as well.
Andy
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