Disable winbindd?

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 15:14 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-03 at 11:17 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> > We have a Linux file server providing Windows shares with Samba.  We
> > need to stop using the Windows domain to authenticate users and use
> > the server local user IDs and passwords for share access.  I think
> > this means we need to disable winbindd.  But I'm not sure.
> > 
> > What are the Samba settings we need to change and look at to get this done?
> ----
> to disable winbindd...
> 
> A typical Red Hat system would set winbind as an authentication method
> in padl_nss (/etc/nsswitch) and you can simply remove winbind from that
> file.
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acutally, on a Red Hat system, you would probably be better off running
'system-config-authentication' (as root) because that would adjust
both /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/pam.d/system-auth and use the tool to
disable winbind authentication.

Craig