Success!! And a SAMBA/winbind question...

[Kory Mohr]

Howdy, Clay!  Thx much for your message.  I did a bit of research, based
on your message, about keeping SSH authentication.  It seems that
libpam-mount 0.15 might be okay with SSH.  I had read that anything
before 0.10 had issues with SSH.

 

I'd hate to bring a Server 2003 terminal server into the mix, ie:

 

http://math.univ-lille1.fr/~hafidi/terminal-services/homedirs_on_windows
_and_authentication_on_linux.html

 

There's an excellent write-up on the LTSP site here:

 

http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/WinIntegration

 

I'm half tempted just to look into giving the respective home
directories access via a web browser via authentication since this
server sits behind our firewall anyway.

 

I've begun working with pam_mount but am not real clear about how it all
ties together.

 

You've given me a good start, Clay.  Thx again!

 

Regards,

Kory

 

 

 

 

________________________________

From: Clay Berlo [mailto:clay.berlo at dsbn.edu.on.ca] 
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:19 AM
To: Kory Mohr
Cc: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: RE: Success!! And a SAMBA/winbind question...

 

Kory,

Well, I've done exactly what you're looking for, and it can be a pain to
configure.  Also, it "voids the manufacturer's warranty" (seems to have
to run in a non-standard configuration that breaks other functionality).

Basically, there's a PAM module called pam_mount that allows you to
automatically mount shares at login.  Works very well for ADS/winbind
authentication and home drive mounting.  However, in order to make this
work, I had to ditch the SSH-based LDM login used by default in Edubuntu
and switch to pure XDMCP.  There seems to be some kind of problem
passing the authentication token from SSH on to the pam_mount.

So, at least in my experience thus far, you can either have the SSH
logins found in Edubuntu by default (and have the lovely local devices
etc. that are in Edgy) or you can have your home drives mounted at
login.  If I could find a way to do both, that would be just perfect!

So, how do you get this working?  In short, install the pam_mount
(apt-get install libpam-mount) and configure it to mount your
appropriate shares.  It's fairly simple, but seems to fail when used in
combination with SSH.  I'd be curious to know if a more recent install
fixes this, but last I tested a couple of weeks ago with Edgy, it still
had issues.

Good luck!

~Clay

 
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