Why does Winbind not seem to send password request to Active Directory?

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Issue

  • Why does Winbind not seem to send password request to Active Directory?
  • /var/log/secure shows following authentication failure error for windows users.
Jun 15 08:19:13 hostname1 sshd[18853]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=host.example.org  user=comp1
Jun 15 08:19:14 hostname1 sshd[18853]: Failed password for comp1 from x.x.x.x port 4026 ssh2

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Samba
  • Winbind

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