Can no longer run certain programs

[José Queiroz]

Is your machine _really_ authenticating via Samba?

2017-07-04 16:21 GMT-03:00 Mark Fraser <mfraz74+ubuntu at gmail.com>:

> On Sunday, 2 July 2017 20:27:00 BST Nils Kassube wrote:
> > Mark Fraser wrote:
> > > On Sunday, 2 July 2017 18:56:51 BST Nils Kassube wrote:
> > > > Mark Fraser wrote:
> > > > > Going to try this again.
> > > > >
> > > > > I am unable to run certain programs after upgrading to 17.04. For
> > > > > example if I try to run KDE Partition Manager or Kuser, my normal
> > > > > password doesn't work and I get
> > > > >
> > > > > Permission denied.
> > > > > Possibly incorrect password, please try again.
> > > > > On some systems, you need to be in a special group (often: wheel)
> > > > > to
> > > > > use this program.
> > > > >
> > > > > Looking at /var/log/auth.log I see this.
> > > > >
> > > > > Jul  2 14:38:08 Rachael sudo: PAM unable to
> > > > > dlopen(pam_winbind.so):
> > > > > /lib/ security/pam_winbind.so: cannot open shared object file: No
> > > > > such file or directory
> > > >
> > > > This time it looks like a useful error message to me - with your
> > > > previous post I had no idea where to look.
> > > >
> > > > apt-file search pam_winbind.so
> > > > libpam-winbind: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security/pam_winbind.so
> > > >
> > > > So it seems like you are missing the "libpam-winbind" package. If
> > > > installing that package fixes the problem, you might file a bug
> > > > report for the partition manager and / or kuser about a missing
> > > > dependency.
> > >
> > > apt-cache policy libpam-winbind
> > >
> > > libpam-winbind:
> > >   Installed: 2:4.5.8+dfsg-0ubuntu0.17.04.2
> > >   Candidate: 2:4.5.8+dfsg-0ubuntu0.17.04.2
> >
> > I think I didn't look carefully enough at the error message. Actually
> > the package libpam-winbind comes with the file pam_winbind.so in the
> > folder "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/security/" while it was missing in the
> > folder "/lib/security/". You could try these commands to link the
> > existing file to the expected location:
> >
> > sudo mkdir -p /lib/security/
> > sudo ln -s ../x86_64-linux-gnu/security/pam_winbind.so /lib/security/
> >
> >
> > Nils
>
> Looks like the winbind errors were a false alarm as I have now removed
> libpam-
> winbind and now the error is just:
>
> Jul  4 20:18:52 Rachael sudo: pam_unix(sudo:auth): conversation failed
> Jul  4 20:18:52 Rachael sudo: pam_unix(sudo:auth): auth could not identify
> password for [mfraser]
> Jul  4 20:19:10 Rachael smbd: pam_unix(samba:session): session closed for
> user
> nobody
>
> If I use kdesudo partitionmanager
> Jul  4 20:20:43 Rachael sudo:  mfraser : TTY=pts/4 ; PWD=/home/mfraser ;
> USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/partitionmanager
> Jul  4 20:20:43 Rachael sudo: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for
> user
> root by mfraser(uid=0)
>
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