Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed

Enabling SMB or Winbind Authentication 285As you can see, the following entities can be set:. default: Default logging if additional settings are configured.. kdc: How to handle logging for the KDC.. admin_server: How to handle logging for the administrative server.By default, these three entities are set to write logs to three different files. The followingvalues are allowed for each of the entities:12. Write to a file:FILE:. Write to a standard error:STDERR. Write to the console:CONSOLE. Write to specified device:DEVICE=. Write to the system log using syslog with the specified severity and facility (validseverities and facilities are in the syslog man page):SYSLOG::Enabling SMB or Winbind AuthenticationChapter 13 discusses the basics of configuring a Samba (SMB) server for file sharing,including allowing connections and logging customization. It also discusses connecting toexisting shared directories on an SMB server on the network. This section discusses howto authenticate users via an SMB server or the Winbind service on a Samba server.The pam_smb RPM package is required for SMB authentication. The samba-common packageis required for Winbind authentication. Install the package containing the authenticationmethod of your choice via RHN if it is not already installed.Enabling SMBOther than the documentation files, the pam_smb package contains two files: the /etc/pam_smb.conf configuration file and /lib/security/pam_smb_auth.so (/lib64/security/pam_smb_auth.so on 64-bit systems).