system-config-authentication quirks

[Yang Xiao]

On 3/6/06, Matt Finlayson <finlayso at vancouver.wsu.edu> wrote:
>
>
> I authenticate linux users via the smb pam mechanism.  When I go through
> a server upgrade and use a machine with a different name I change the
> server line in the /etc/pam_smb.conf to reflect the new server machine.
>
> I was terribly frustrated to see the server validate the users that log
> and then see the client machine not properly handle the returned success.
>
> I discovered that I had to run system-config-authentication which showed
> all the correct settings except for the server line that is in
> /etc/pam_smb.conf.  Once I entered the correct server name things work
> great.
>
> How come I have to run system-config-authentication to get
> authentication to work?  Why doesn't the system know that I have
> allready hand entered the correct data in /etc/pam_smb.conf?
>

Because system-config-authentication restarts smb for you? bleh.

- Yang
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