Authorize winbind to authenticate users on the server – Using Debian in an Active Directory environment

This will allow AD accounts to logon to the machine. Edit the following files so that they look like this:

# /etc/pam.d/common-account
account    sufficient    pam_winbind.so
account    required    pam_unix.so
# /etc/pam.d/common-auth
auth    sufficient    pam_winbind.so
auth    required    pam_unix.so use_first_pass nullok_secure
# /etc/pam.d/common-session
session    required    pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0066
session    sufficient    pam_winbind.so
session required    pam_unix.so

It is critical that “obey pam restrictions” is set to “yes”. in your smb.conf for these pam settings to take effect.
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