Trouble authenticating with Active Directory
 

I added my Oracle Linux 5 server to our Active Directory. It appears to have joined fine. I run wbinfo -g and see all the groups. I run wbingo -u and see the users. When I try to login useing my AD account I get a permission denied, please try again error. I look at /var/log/secure and see Invalid user errors and Failed password for invalid user errors. I know the user is valid and the password it good. The AD account is not locked.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks

It says in the wbinfo man page, not to use this for authentication. Only for querying.
It recommends ntlm_auth for authentication, but that's only a helper program that's called by another program.

So which PAM module are you using to do your AD authentication? pam_krb5? Quest Authentication Services (QAS)? Likewise? Centrify?

Spike

I was just using wbinfo to verify that it could see my user account. I believe I am using pam_krb5 for authentication.

You can use raw pam_ldap + pam_krb5 to enact AD integration with Linux. I have done this (even implemented SASL bindings) and it works. But it seems quite fragile. If you're a hobbyist, or on a shoe-string subject -- this is the way to go.

But if you're in charge of an enterprise env, I'd recommend you going with one of the major players to do this: Centrify, Likewise or Quest (VAS).

They can handle cross-domain authentication, one-way trusts, cross-forest authentication from an untrusted domain and other complex scenarios. Also, they have the smart engineers on staff that know Kerberos inside and out.

Spike