Can't add new user in lucid

[Karl Larsen]

On 03/26/2010 09:59 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 26 March 2010 15:48, Tom H<tomh0665 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>>> I have found it in launchpad:
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/545864
>>> It is to do with having installed samba.  It only talks about the
>>> change password problem but I guess it is also causing the inability
>>> to login of new users, as it is failing creating the user.
>>>        
>> libpam-runtime!
>>
>> I had just run
>> aptitude search pam | grep ^i
>> to try to figure out which package to reconfigure...
>>
>>      
> There is a workaround in the bug description
> Workaround:
> 1. Run sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow libpam-runtime
> 2. Deselect "Winbind NT/Active Directory authentication"
> 3. Select OK
>
> Having tried it I can confirm that it fixes the inability to login
> with new users problem.  I will add this to the bug report.
>
> Colin
>
>    
     I have been following this and glad it is explained why I had zero 
problems and Colin had nothing but bad problems. I have no plans to load 
samba since I hate Windows. I will kill my two new users and get back to 
booting right up without a password.

73 Karl