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I am trying to enable AD authentication for Debian stable servers to enable users to logon via ssh authenticating against Windows AD.It all works fine and I can ssh to the server using my Windows credentials but I have noticed this message on remote ssh logon when logging on as root:
Your account has been locked. Please contact your System administrator Your account has been locked. Please contact your System administrator Your account has been locked. Please contact your System administrator Last login: Sat Jun 13 14:15:14 2009 from workstation1 server1:~#
I have checked if I can login via local console as root and oops, I cannot.Same error pops up.This could kick me painfully in the future. At the same time I have tried the same setup for RedfHat and I don't have this problem. I believe the problem is somewhere in my pam configuration but can't see where.googling for error does not get me anywhere either.
below are details for corresponding pam files on Debian and redhat
Are you sure you don't just have the root account locked on the server ... and I thought permit of root login over ssh was a really bad idea - things like rkhunter check for this.
what do the logs say? does root fail because of winbind or pam? in my setup, login tries AD first and then falls back to local pam. so when I log in as root I get a fail in the logs for winbind but OK with pam.
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