Hi all, The NT authentication saga continues... I've followed the route of putting the winbind authenication is system-auth... When an account attempts to log in this gets sent to the messages log... Sep 30 14:03:27 bart pam_winbind[16267]: user 'RMNETNT+rwl' granted acces Sep 30 14:03:27 bart gdm-binary[16267]: User RMNETNT+rwl not permitted to gain access at this time The gdm login says... "The system administrator has disabled access to the system temporarily" My system-auth file looks like this... ...................... #%PAM-1.0 # This file is auto-generated. # User changes will be destroyed the next time authconfig is run. auth required /lib/security/pam_env.so auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_winbind.so auth sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so likeauth nullok use_first_pass auth required /lib/security/pam_deny.so account sufficient /lib/security/pam_winbind.so #account required /lib/security/pam_unix.so password required /lib/security/pam_cracklib.so retry=3 type= password sufficient /lib/security/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5 shadow password required /lib/security/pam_deny.so session required /lib/security/pam_mkhomedir.so skel=/etc/skel/ umask=0022 session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so session required /lib/security/pam_unix.so ................. and the gdm file like this... ............................... #%PAM-1.0 auth required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth auth required /lib/security/pam_nologin.so account required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth password required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth session required /lib/security/pam_stack.so service=system-auth session optional /lib/security/pam_console.so .................. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. ===== rgds, Richard Rothwell -------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't teach pigs to sing. It wastes your time and it annoys the pigs. Robert Kiyosaki ________________________________________________________________________ Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo! Messenger http://mail.messenger.yahoo.co.uk